Get the South back
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union
Reconstruction
These laws greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
This process is used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing agianst a public official
Impeachment
this was the special tax people had to pay before they could vote
poll tax
It offered southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion
Ten Percent Plan
This secret society opposed civil rights, particulary, suffrage, for African Americans
Ku Klux Klan
This gave African American men the right to vote
Fifteenth Amendment
The forced seperation of whites and African Americans in public places
Seregation
This Amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This black man was born in North Carolina and went to college in Illinois. He became a Methodist minister and served as a chaplain in the Union Army
Hiram Revels
Politicians who took wanted the federal government to force change in the South
Radical Republicans
An agency providing relief for freedman and certain poor people in the South
Freedman's Bureau
This name was given to the laws that enforced serregation
Jim Crow Laws
Fearing the Civil Rights Act might be overturned, the Republicans proposed this. It guarenteed citizens the equal protection of the laws
Fourteenth Amendment
Court case that decided that sergegation was allowed, if seperate but equal facilities were provided
Plessy v Ferguson
A Vice President who was sworn into office quickly. Reconstruction had now become his responsibility
Andrew Johnson
These laws divided the South into five districts
Reconstruction Acts
The Democrats agreed to accept hayne's victory. in return, they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the south
Compromise of 1877
Farming agreement where land-owners provided the land, tool, and supplies, and former slaves provided labor, and split the profits
Sharecropping