Election/Presidents
Won the election of 1860 with most of the African American votes
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
It abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
Gave each Indian family 160 acres of land
What is the Dawes Act
Tax paid before a person can vote
What is Poll Tax
The amount of African Americans that served in the US house of representatives between 1869 and 1880
What is 16
Required a majority of voters to pledge loyalty to the US, and each state had to ratify the 13th amendment
What is Andrew Johnson's plan for reconstruction
The right to vote not based on race
What is the 15th Amendment
Gave each state land to sell to help establish colleges
What is the Morrill Act
Required that the person is able to read and write before voting
What is the Literacy test
First African American to serve on the US senate in Congress
Who is Hiram Rhodes
Impeached in 1868 because he opposed Radical Reconstruction policies for former Southern states
Who is President Johnson
CItizenship to African Americans
What is the 14th amendment
Included the Poll Tax, Literacy Test, and the Grandfather Clause
What are Voting restrictions
Legal separation of races
What is Segregation
Northerners who went to the south after the civil war
What is Carpetbaggers
Lincoln refused to sign this bill into law which banned slavery in the state and required the majority of adult males to take a loyalty oath to the union
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
Words to remember amendments 13-15
What is Free Citizens Vote
Any citizen could occupy 160 acres of government land, If they improved the land
What is the Homestead Act
The Rebuilding of the south
What is Reconstruction
Completed in 1869, worked in both directions, and joined in Promontory Utah
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
They won the Election of 1876 and pledged to end reconstruction
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
Limited 13-15 amendments
What are Black Codes
Stated that all people born in the US were citizens and granted all citizens certain rights under the law
What is the Civil Rights of 1866
"Place of freedom" where thousands of African Americans settled
What is Liberia
After southern states seceded, the US passed several acts to open the west, which had previously been blocked by the Southern states
What is the Opening of the West