People
The first U.S. president to be assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
separation of people by race that is forced, not chosen
What is segregation?
Amendment that made slavery illegal
What is the 13th amendment?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to free all of their ________.
What are slaves?
The 17th President of the U.S. who agreed with Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction (no punishment for the South)
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
Laws passed by the Southern governments that limited the rights of African Americans
What are Black Codes?
Response of Congress to Andrew Johnson's veto of the 1867 Civil Rights Act.
What is "They overrode the veto?"
Organization set up by the federal government to help newly freed slaves gain the rights of U.S. citizens (education, voting, food, shelter, etc.)
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The 18th president of the U.S. - the guy elected after Johnson.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A person who works on a farm (usually in the south) but does not own it and has to pay rent in the form of crops. Economic slavery.
Who is a sharecropper?
Laws that forcefully separated people of different races
Segregation/Jim Crow Laws
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to take an oath of ______ to the U.S.
What is loyalty?
His contested election for president lead to the end of reconstruction
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes
Northerners who moved South after the Civil War in order to take advantage of Reconstruction to make a profit.
What are carpetbaggers?
President who was in charge of enforcing the Civil Rights Act of 1867 after winning the election of 1867
Who was Ulysses Grant?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to write new state ______.
What are constitutions?
He was the first first African American to serve in the Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
White Southerners who were in favor of Reconstruction plans.
What is a scalawag?
Amendment that allowed all MALE U.S. citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to declare ______ was illegal.
What is secession?
The group in the U.S. Congress who imposed more harsh conditions for the South during Reconstruction
Who are Radical Republicans?
People who act like the police to stop and punish, what they perceive as, criminals.
What is a vigilante?
Amendment that allowed all people born in the U.S. to be citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
The name of the terrorist, white supremacy organization, that sought to block the civil rights of newly free African Americans through violence and crime.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
He was a very unpopular Governor of Tennessee during Reconstruction.
Who was William Brownlow?
To formally charge the President with misconduct in office.
What is to impeach
This act, passed by the Radical Republicans in 1867, divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts.
What was the Reconstruction act of 1867.
Tennessee's new Constitution in 1870 allowed more people to vote as long as they paid this.
What is a "poll tax?"