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100

White men from the North who moved to the South for their own economic gains.

What are carpetbaggers?
100
Abolished slavery throughout the United States.

What is the 13th Amendment?

100
Principle of government that allowed Congress to override President Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1867.
What is Checks & Balances?
100

Southern, white Republicans who took over political offices in the south.

What are scalawags?

100
Congress trying to remove Andrew Johnson from the office of President during Reconstruction
What is impeachment?
200
The act of bringing Confederate States of America back into the Union and becoming one nation.
What is Reconstruction?
200
Provided food, medical care and educational opportunities for newly freed African Americans.

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

200

To support a free labor system, to rebuild the South, and secure equal rights for African Americans.

What are the Northern goals for Reconstruction?
200

Secret organization formed after the Civil War whose goal was to control elections and destroy the Republican Party in the South.

What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
You are unable to vote in the south if your grandfather was not able to vote.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
300
President that carried out the plans for Reconstruction.
What is Andrew Johnson?
300

Gave any citizen the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

What is the 15th Amendment?

300
Gave free land titles on Federal land west of the Mississippi River to registered citizens.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
300

Required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution.

What is a literacy test?
300

Became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
400

Congressmen from the Republican Party who favored using the government to create a new order in the South and to give African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote.

What are Radical Republicans?
400
Passed after the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to reinforce their rights.

What is the 14th Amendment?

400
Freed slaves who rented a portion of a plantation and had to give 1/3 - 1/2 of the profit from their crops to the plantation owner.

What is sharecropping?

400

Southern state laws that limited the freedom of African Americans in order to return them to plantation labor force.

What are Black Codes?
400
Was elected President in a Congressional Committee compromise that officially ended Reconstruction
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500

Allowed states to reenter the Union when 10% of the state's voters took a loyalty oath and the states accepted the abolition of slavery.

What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
500

Required a majority of the white voting males of the state to pledge their allegiance to the Union, to rewrite their state constitution, and to abolish slavery in order for their state to reenter the Union.

What is the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864?
500

Their goal was to restore their economic prosperity over the Free African Americans and maintain white supremacy in southern governments.

What are Southern White Planters?
500
Stated that African Americans in the south were "separate but equal".
What are Jim Crow Laws?
500
Retook Congressional seats and local political offices after Federal troops left.
What are Southern Democrats?