People
Leader of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
Law that made it so that if your grandfather couldn't vote, you cannot either
Grandfather clause
Government agency that helped African Americans to get established after being freed
Freedmen's Bureau
Ulysses S. Grant
Difficult test given to voters who could not prove an education
Literacy test
Reconstruction plan that had military supervise south
Reconstruction Act of 1867
First African American Senator
Hiram Revels
This amendment abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Northerners who moved south to take advantage of southern destruction, politically and socially
Carpetbaggers
16th President of the U.S. Abolitionist who was assassinated for abolition
Abraham Lincoln
This Amendment established birthright citizenship and naturalization
14th Amendment
Discriminatory laws designed to keep African Americans from participating in citizenship
Jim Crow Laws
Abolitionist leader, and writer
Frederick Douglass
Amendment that gave voting rights to african american men
15th Amendment
Agreement that the north would withdraw troops and continue to send money to rebuild the south. The South agreed to protect African American civil rights. DOES NOT HAPPEN
Compromise of 1877