People
Assassinated Abe Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
This amendment ended slavery
13th Amendment
To free
Emancipate
Helped the former slaves by setting up schools and hospitals
Freedmans Bureau
Completed a total War campaign against the South
General Sherman and Sheridan
This Amendment says all persons born in the US are now citizens of the US
14th Amendment
To forgive
Amnesty
Made people take a reading and writing exam just to vote
Literacy Test
A southerner who sympathizes with the North
Scalawag
This Amendment gave former slaves the right to vote
15th Amendment
To separate
Segregation
Made people pay money in order to vote
Poll Tax
Northerner who traveled to the South to make money after the Civil War
Carpetbagger
I was 1/8th black and jailed for sitting in a white car on a train. I sued but lost so now everything is SEPERATE BUT EQUAL
Homer Plessy
To give up without getting anything in return
Unconditional Surrender
This allowed people the ability to do something ( vote ) if your descendants were able to do it despite new changes in the law
Grandfather Clause
These Northern Politicians wanted to harshly punish the south after the Civil War
Radical Republicans
These laws segregated blacks in the southern states after the civil war.
Black Codes
These people were given a piece of land but in return had to send part of their harvest to the landowner.
Sharecropper
This was Lincolns plan to bring the Southern States back into the Union after the Civil War
10% Plan