Reconstruction 1
Define: Amnesty
a group pardon
Define: Scalawag
southern whites who opposed secession
Define: Impeachment
is the bringing of formal charges against a public official
Define: Segregation
enforced separation of races
What did the Freedmen's Bureau set up to deal with disputes?
its own courts
Define: Sharecropper
a laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop
What was the 14th amendment?
Anyone born in the United States is a citizen
Which one is NOT one of the 3 points of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Write a new state constitution
Ratify the 14th amendment
Give Freedmen jobs
Allow African Americans to vote
Give Freedmen jobs
What was the point of the poll tax and the literacy test?
To prevent African Americans to vote
What year was the 13th amendment approved by Congress?
1865
What legal and social systems did southern states create after reconstruction and what were they called?
segregation and it was called the Jim Crow laws
What did the court rule in the Homer Plessy case?
law require "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites
What was the 15th amendment?
allow African Americans to vote
Define: Black Codes
new laws used by southern states to control African Americans
Fords Theatre
What was the 13th amendment?
Abolished slavery & forced labor
When was the Freedman's Bureau established, and what did they do?
1865, and set up schools in the south
Who took over for President Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
Who shot Abraham Lincoln, and what happened to him?
John Wilkes Booth and he was captured and killed
Who won the 1868 presidential Election?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was Homer Plessy and what does he have to do with a Supreme Court decision?
Plessy v. Fuergeson, separate but equal doctrine
Why did sharecropping lead to a cycle of poverty?
the sharecroppers often owed more than they had earned and had no choice but to offer the landlord a greater percentage of next years crop
Who won the election of 1876, and how?
Rutherford B Hayes, because he agreed to end reconstruction
Lincoln 10% plan called for
10% of state to take a loyalty oath
Which two African Americans were elected to he Senate between 1872 and 1901?
Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce