Vocabulary
A firsthand account of an incident or time period.
What is a Primary Source?
This Amendment granted African Americans and all persons born withing the US citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Did Johnson's plan want to A) punish the south B) go easy on the south
What is B) go easy on the south
All southerners followed Lincoln's, Johnson's, and the Radical Republicans Plan without question. A)True B)False
What is B) False?
Citizens had to pay a fee to the poll worker before they could vote. This fee was called a...
What is a Poll Tax?
Rebuilding the country's social, economic and political status after the civil war.
What is Reconstruction?
These are added to the US Constitution granting rights for the American people.
What is an Amendment?
This plan pardoned all southerners if 10% swore allegiance to the Union.
What is Lincoln's 10% plan
This group was formed to maintain white supremacy in the south.
What is the Klu Klux Klan (KKK)?
US citizens had to pass reading and logic questions that the poll worker graded. These questions were...
What is a Literacy Test?
When people are separated by race
What is Segregation?
This Amendment granted voting rights to all male citizens within the US.
What is the 15th amendment?
1865 to 1877 was known as the period of...
What is the Reconstruction Era?
These laws were adopted by the south during the 1870's
What are the Black Codes?
The KKK used this tactic to stop blacks from voting in elections.
What is intimidation and violence?
Textbooks are an example of what type of source?
What is a secondary source?
Which amendement ended slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment.
This plan forced southerners to pay war debts and didn't allow African Americans to vote.
What is Johnson's Plan?
Many feedslaves went into what type of living arangment? They did not own land or tools.
What is sharecropping?
Amendment which allowed all males to vote?
What is the 15th Amendment.
People who opposed slavery were called?
What is abolitionists.
Lets' take it back a few years. Although the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the US what was the first action taken by President Lincoln to end slavery in the Union in 1863. DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These people ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and occupied the south with the US military.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Freed slaves who worked the fields with their own tools and animasl were called? (Daily Double)
What is tenent farming,
This law stated that,"only those who had grandfathers who could vote BEFORE the Civil War could vote in elections.
What is the Grandfather Clause?