Important People
16th American President that led the country through the civil war until he was assassinated.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Lincolns Plan for Reconstruction. Required 10% of voters to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union before they could be readmitted.
What is the 10% Plan?
Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
Social group founded in the South by Confederate veterans to play pranks, eventually became a terrorist organization
What is the KKK
Term for newly freed slaves
What are freedmen?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Republicans plan for Reconstruction. Required the majority of states prewar voters to swear loyalty to the Union.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
Amendment that gave all men the right to vote regardless of race.
What is the 15th amendment?
Laws created in the South during Reconstruction that limited the rights of freedmen
What are Black Codes?
Term for Northerners who moved South after the Civil War
What are Carpetbaggers?
Lincoln's Vice President who took over after Lincoln. He granted amnesty to Southerners after the Civil War
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Plan for Reconstruction that allowed states to enter the Union too soon. Some states were run by former Confederate officials.
What is Johnson's Plan
Amendment that granted citizenship to former slaves and protected citizens right to due process.
What is the 14th Amendment?
System of land renting that tied poor African Americans and Whites to a landowner through debt
What is sharecropping?
A term describing Southerners who betrayed the South and joined the Republican party
Who are Scalawags?
President who took after Johnson. He was embedded in many scandals and presided over military reconstruction of the South.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
Bill passed by the Radical Republicans to require 50% of southern voters to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union. Vetoed by Lincoln.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Act that put the South under military occupation to enforce Reconstruction
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
This group was excluded from the 15th Amendment
Who are women?
The process of readmitting the Southern States into the Union after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Radical Republican senator who supported rights for freedmen and helped to pass the Reconstruction Amendments
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
Latin term meaning to return things to their state before a war
What is Status Quo Antebellum?
Law violated by Andrew Johnson after he fired Edwin Stanton
DAILY DOUBLE
Describe what happened to him directly after this(details are improtant)
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
He was impeached in the House of Representatives, but the Senate found him innocent by 1 vote
Supreme Court case that ruled that accommodations could be separate but equal.
What is Plessy v Ferguson
A key part of Johnson's plan. To forgive someone for a crime they have committed.
What is amnesty/pardons