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Laws, Acts, and Amendments
People
Vocabulary
Laws, Acts, and Amendments
Groups
100
Offered southerners amnesty for all legal ats supporting rebellion
Ten Percent Plan
100
Lincoln's Vice President, Took over after assassination
Andrew Johnson
100
Process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union
Reconstruction
100
Amendment made slavery illegal throughout the US
Thirteenth amendment
100
Agency providing relief for freed-people
Freedmen's Bureau
200
Laws that greatly limited the freedom of blacks
Black Codes
200
African American politician
Hiram Revels
200
Process used by legislature to bring charges of wrongdoing against public officials
Impeachment
200
This act provided African Americans with same legal rights as whites
Civil Right Acts of 1866
200
People who wanted the federal government to force the change in the south
Radical Republicans
300
These laws divided the south into five districts
Reconstruction Acts
300
Forced separation of black and whites
Segregation
300
Amendment gave congress more power and more rights to citizens
Fourteenth amendment
300
Secret Society opposed civil rights
Ku Klux Klan
400
Amendment gave black men right to vote
Fifteenth amendment
400
sharing the crop
Sharecropping
400
Democrats wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the south
Compromise of 1877
400
Segregation was allowed said the court, if seperate but equal facilities were provided
Plessy vs. Ferguson
500
Laws that enforced segregation
Jim Crow laws
500
Special tax people had to pay in order to vote
Poll Tax