Important People
Who was president at the end of the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
13th Amendment
ended slavery
This word describes the separation of people from different races
Segregation
What was Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan called?
10% Plan
Freedmen
Former slaves
Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
15th Amendment
What was the system known as “slavery by another name”?
Sharecropping
What did Lincoln's 10% Plan want the Southerners to do?
Take an oath of allegiance to the Union
Oath of allegiance
What theater character was used as a term to describe the treatment of African Americans?
Jim Crow
14th Amendment
Civil rights of citizenship to freed slaves
What laws were passed to limit the rights and freedoms of the freed slaves?
Black Codes
Why did Radical Republicans not support Lincoln’s plan?
He was "too lenient" on the South
Freedman's Bureau
Helps former slaves with schools, jobs, & housing
What group was most likely to join the KKK?
Which amendment were women not included in?
The 15th Amendment- right to vote
What are 3 examples of public accommodations that were considered “separate but equal”?
What did the Freedmen’s Bureau help to establish?
schools, jobs, housing
Scalawags
Southern citizens who support the Union
Radical Republicans
Which amendment guaranteed rights to "everyone born in the US"?
The 14th Amendment- right to citizenship
What court case established that “separate but equal” segregation was legal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
How did Lincoln respond to the Wade-Davis bill, which stated that 50% of voters must take the oath of allegiance to the Union?
veto
Reconstruction
The period of rebuilding after the Civil War, when the divided country was reunited