Legislation
What did the 13th amendment do?
Abolish slavery
What were literacy tests?
Test for African Americans to see if they could read or write to vote
What did the South look like after the Civil War was over?
Destroyed, building burned, etc
Who assassinated Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
An agency formed during Reconstruction to assist the freedmen
What did the 14th amendment do?
Declared everyone born in the US as citizens and that they had equal rights
What was the grandfather clause?
Stated that if your grandfather couldn't vote then you couldn't
What was sharecropping?
Land owner will provide the land to the sharecroppers and in return they will provide half of the crop to the land owner. The sharecropper will give the crop to the landowner to sell
What did Lincoln's 10% Plan involve?
Required that 10% of voters swear a loyalty oath
What are freedmen?
Freed slaves after the Civil War
What did the 15th amendment do?
Gave African American men the right to vote
What is segregation?
Separation of races
Why did sharecroppers end up in debt?
Sharecroppers would end up owing more than they had earned by the time the crops were sold and their expenses were accounted for whether it was from a need of supplies or a bad harvest. As a result, sharecroppers were in a cycle of debt
Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
What did the Wade Davis Bill require?
Required that 50% of voters swear a loyalty oath
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws the enforced segregation in the South
What does the KKK stand for?
Ku Klux Klan
What was a carpetbagger?
Someone who moved to the south to try and take advantage of business opportunities
What did Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan involve?
Wanted southern states to ratify the 13th amendment and allowed former Confederate officials to hold office and vote
Who won the election of 1876?
Rutherford B Hayes
What was the result of Plessy v Ferguson?
Declared that separate but equal facilites are legal
What did the KKK normally wear?
White hooded robes
What was a scalawag?
Someone who was from the south but supported the North's ideals
Why did Andrew Johnson get impeached?
He fired his Secretary of War which he was not permitted to do
What did the Radical Republicans do to punish the South?
They imposed military rule on the South and divided it into military districts