Chapter 8: Reconstruction

Amendments and Acts

100

made slavery illegal 

13th amendment

200

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

15th amendment 

300

granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people, and provided equal protection under the laws for all citizens

14th amendment

400

overturned the black codes

Civil Rights Act of 1866

500

Divided south into 5 military districts

Reconstruction act of 1867

Life after Civil War

100

a period from 1865-1877 where the federal government struggled with how to return the eleven southern states to the union, rebuild the southern economy, and promote the rights of former slaves

reconstruction

200

goal to provide food clothing health care and education for both African Americans and poor whites in the south

Freedmens Bureau

300

Required 50% of a states voters to take an oath of loyalty to elect a new government

radical republicans

400

This was passed in congress in 1864 but pocket vetoed by Lincoln

Wade Davis bill

500

This case involved a white mob in Louisiana who had killed a large group (Colfax Massacre) and the court ruled that the 14th amendment only protected citizens from actions of the state and not private citizens, future court rules would be based on this 

US v. Cruikshank 

Presidents

100

Proposed the 10% plan

Lincoln 

200

Panic of 1873 hit in his second term

Ulysses S. Grant

300

Was impeached and almost removed from office

Andrew Johnson

400

Was elected president due to the Compromise of 1877

What was his political party

Rutherford B. Hayes

Republican

500

This president, elected in 1868, oversaw the final stages of Reconstruction and the passage of the 15th Amendment, which granted voting rights regardless of race. His presidency was marred by corruption scandals, but he remained in office through the economic turbulence caused by the Panic of 1873

Ulysses S. Grant

Vocabulary

100

suffrage

the right to vote 

200

abolitionist

a person that wants to stop slavery 

300

politicians who aimed to repair the south in the eyes of congress/reclaim the south from northern domination

redeemers 

400

a farming practice where landowners supplied tenants with food, shelter, tools and supplies

a farming system where tenants purchased and used their own farm tools and supplies 

sharecropping 

tenant farming

500

white men who had been locked out of pre-civil war politics by wealthier neighbors, welcomed in by Republicans 

scalawags 

Random

100

a tax voters had to pay to vote

poll tax 

200

Founded in Tennessee in 1866, members roamed the countryside burning homes, schools, and churches killing African Americans

KKK

300

Order these in chronological order:

Freedmen's Bureau Acts

14th Amendment

Enforcement Act of 1870

Freedmen's Bureau Acts

14th Amendment

Enforcement Act of 1870

400

_________________ said "With malice toward none and charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations" March 1865

Lincoln

500

Johnson required former Confederates with property worth more than ______________ to obtain a ______________________ in order to vote or hold office

$20,000

presidential pardon