Presidents
The President of the United States during the Civil War was:
Abraham Lincoln
This man was the first African-American senator
Hiram Revels
These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves
Black Codes
The term for separating people by race:
Segregation
This is what the 14th amendment gives
Citizenship to all Americans born in the U.S.
The President after Lincoln was assassinated. Often tried to take a lenient approach to the South during reconstruction. Was later impeached by Congress.
Andrew Johnson
Name of the Radical Republican senator who was beaten after delivering a fiery anti-slavery speech:
Charles Sumner
This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union
What is the 10% Plan
These are white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies by Republicans
What are scalawags
This was organized to help ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, and education
What is Freedmen's Bureau
The President after Andrew Johnson. Served as a general during the Civil War. Although he was a Republican, he ended up getting into scandals that made it impossible to do his job.
Ulysses S. Grant
The secretary of war under President Lincoln. Played an important role in the trials for the conspirators of Lincoln's assassination:
Edwin Stanton
Name of the plan that was created to win the Civil War by Winfield Scott and Abraham Lincoln
The Anaconda Plan
This is the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South in order to purchase the cheap land
What are carpetbaggers
This amendment gave the right to vote for freed African American men:
15th
Name of the President who was elected at the end of the Reconstruction Era. In order to get Democrats to agree to have him as President, the Republicans had to agree to remove all troops from the South.
Rutherford B. Hayes
This man assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
After the black codes were declared to be illegal, this new set of laws enforced segregation in the South:
Jim Crow Laws
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a portion of the crop raised on that land
What is sharecropping
This group supported white supremacy and used terror tactics to stop voting in the post-war South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
How many votes did the senate fall short of convicting Andrew Johnson after he was impeached?
1
Served as a field nurse during the Civil War and founded the organization we know today as the Red Cross
Clara Barton
This U.S. government act of 1870 protected African American rights in the South by upping U.S. military presence to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1867
The Enforcement Act
These were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force radical changes in Southern life and politics
Radical Republicans
The amount of horses that Nathan Bedford Forrest had shot out from under him during the Civil War
30. And he killed 31 in hand to hand combat.