Famous People
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln's Plan to Ban Slavery
Ten Percent Plan
This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States
13th Amendement
The process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the South without slavery
Reconstruction
Northern born Republicans who moved South after the Civil War
Carpetbaggers
President during the Civil War and early Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
Passed in Southern States; Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
This amendment made all minorities, except Native Americans, citizens of the United States
14th Amendement
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln here
Ford's Theatre
Freedmen's Bureau
Vice President who did not support programs to protect freed slaves. Constantly battled with Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
Unfair laws that supported and enforced the idea of segregation
Jim Crow Laws
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
15th Amendement
The forced separation of Whites and African Americans in public places
Segregation
White Southern Republicans
Scalawags
Leader of the Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Gave African Americans the same legal rights as Whites
Civil Rights Act of 1866
When these amendments were passed, the supreme court ruled this case in favor of "separate equal" facilities for African Americans.
Plessy vs Ferguson
Severe economic turndown where over two million people lost their jobs
Panic of 1873
When these amendments were passed these people, who were freed slaves, often took new laws names.
Freedpeople
Elected President in 1868; supported by African American votes.
Ulysses Grant
Reconstruction governments support laws that tried to stop this from happening against African Americans
Discrimination
Despite the passing of these amendments, African Americans still had to overcome voting obstacles such as....
Literacy Test, Poll Tax, or Grandfather Clause
Official Pardon
Amnesty
Individuals behind the Democrats return to power in the South
Redeemers