Reconstruction Plans
Under whose plan was one of the goals to humiliate Confederate leaders?
President Andrew Johnson
This granted full citizenship to all those born in the United States.
Fourteenth Amendment
Southern whites who supported the Republicans were called...
Scalawags
When African Americans were hung.
Lynching
What was the name of Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
Restoration
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
To formally charge the president with wrongdoing.
This happened to Andrew Johnson near the end of his presidency.
Impeach
Northern whites who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called...
Carpetbaggers
A voting restriction to prevent African Americans from voting by issuing a fee to vote at a polling place.
Poll Tax
This Amendment prohibited governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen.
Fifteenth Amendment
This is the name of Lincoln's plan to reunify the nation after the Civil War.
Ten Percent Plan
Johnson violated this act when he removed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton from office.
Tenure of Office Act
Ku Klux Klan
Laws passed to fully segregate white and black people in everyday society.
Jim Crow Laws
Instituted in the south to limit African American rights, which many criticized as resembling slavery.
Black Codes
What was the name of the group that was created to help freed slaves adjust to their new freedom?
Freedmens' Bureau
When this was passed, it granted full citizenship to African Americans. It also gave the federal government power to help protect their rights.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Name the two African American senators we learned about in this section.
Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce
The Supreme Court case where the Jim Crow Laws were upheld.
Plessy v. Ferguson
To help white voters who did not pass the literacy test, if your father or grandfather voted before Reconstruction, you could vote.
Grandfather Clause
This bill barred former Confederate leaders from holding office.
Wade-Davis Bill
This act divided the Southern states into military districts, and in order to rejoin the Union, had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. This also gave African American men the right to vote in state elections.
First Reconstruction Act
The system of when a landowner rented land to an African American with little to no supplies, and took a percentage of the crops.
Sharecropping
This voting restriction against African Americans required them to read and explain difficult parts of Constitutions.
Literacy Test
When a president refuses to approve or sign something into law.
Veto