Vocabulary
This organization gave food, clothing, jobs, and medical care to former slaves and poor whites
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation and was assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
This system encouraged former slaves to live and farm land in return for a share of crops
What is sharecropping?
Another name for Johnson's plan for reconstruction
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
To bring charges against a president or government official
What is impeachment?
This President was at odds with the Republican Congress for being too lenient on the South during Reconstruction
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment gave African American males the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
What are poll taxes?
The name of Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
What is the 10 Percent Plan?
The separation of people of different races in public places
What is segregation?
This Union War Hero was president of the United States from 1869-1877 and mainly focused on protecting civil rights of newly freed slaves
Who is Grant?
This amendment made African Americans citizens
What is the 14th Amendment?
This secret society used terror and violence to intimidate former slaves in the South
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The years that Reconstruction lasted in the United States
What is 1865-1877?
Someone who wants to make a drastic or dramatic change in society
What is a radical?
This Democrat lost the controversial election of 1876
Who is Tilden?
This Act divided the South into 5 military districts
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Tests that prevented many African Americans from voting because they were not able to read
The 4 presidents involved in Reconstruction in the South
Who are Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, and Hayes?
Government "pardon" or forgiveness
What is amnesty?
The president that agreed to end Reconstruction if he became Preisdent
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The controversial election that ended Reconstruction
What is the election of 1876?
This court case legalized segregation after a Black man was arrested in Louisiana for sitting in the "white" car of a train
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
This act restricts the President from removing people from office without the Senate's approval
What is the Tenure of Office Act?