Key Terms 1
Military enforced laws in southern states
Reconstruction act of 1867
Southerners who supported reconstruction
Scalawags
Man who replaced Lincoln as president after his assassination
Andrew Johnson
Number of military districts in Reconstruction Act of 1867
5
The price per acre of land in the West as sold by the US Government
$1.25 per acre
Amendment to the constitution outlawing slavery
The 13th Amendment
Freedmen who raised crops for lad owners and received some of the profits
Sharecroppers
Reason why people moved west during reconstruction
Gold, Farmland was cheap, Becoming a cowboy
The one state in the south that did not have a military presence during reconstruction
Tennessee
The expansion of this transportation made it easier to move west
Railroad
Vice President of the confederate states of America
Alexander Stephens
People that disguised themselves and intimidated, beat and murdered black people
Ku Klux Klan
Name one of the things states had to do under Johnson's plan for reconstruction
Ratify 13th amendment, admit they were wrong, southern states cancel debts to those helping the war
Man elected in the election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
Mr. C's favorite color
Green
Amendment stating all male citizens can vote, people have natural-born citizenship
The 14th Amendment
Laws segregating people. Black people could not use the same public places as white people
Jim Crow Laws
The Black Codes
Literacy Test
The only official from the Confederate States of America to stay in prison after the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Scammers who came south after the war to make money from southerners
Carpetbaggers
The Great Plains in the West, where some Native Americans settled
The Great American Desert
Official group that provided food, clothing and job help to newly freed black people
The Freedman's Bureau
State where most Native American Tribes were moved
Oklahoma
Everyone's favorite class in 5th Grade
History