People
The first U.S. president to be assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What formal changes to the Constitution are called
What is an amendment?
Amendment that made slavery illegal
What is the 13th amendment?
Phase of Reconstruction that did the most to try to promote political equality.
What was Congressional Reconstruction?
KKK and other groups rose to prevent equality in South; these laws temporarily stopped them.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
President after Lincoln, he was a Southerner and former enslaver, and now in charge of Reconstruction
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The plan that Lincoln created during the war the required loyalty oaths from a fraction of the population before being states could be readmitted to the Union
What is the 10% plan?
Amendment that allowed all male U.S. citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
The idea promoted by many Southerners that the Civil War was over state's rights and not slavery
Southern tactics to stop Black (republican) votes
Violence, fraud, and voter intimidation
The group in the U.S. Congress who imposed more harsh conditions for the South during Reconstruction
Who are Radical Republicans?
The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Amendment that allowed all people born in the U.S. to be citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
Invented the first working and practical gas mask and three signal traffic light
Gave a Republican the Presidency in return for the removal of troops in the South; effectively signaled the end of Reconstruction
What was the Compromise of 1877?
The 18th President; took office after Johnson
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
Laws passed by the Southern governments effectively attempted to re-establish slavery
What are Black Codes?
Organization that split over the 15th Amendment
What is the AERA (American Equal Rights Association)?
First Black Governor (Louisiana)
Who was PBS Pinchback?
Name of the author of 12 Million Black Voices
Who is Richard Wright?
Ran in the Election of 1876 on a promise to end Reconstruction (Democrat)
Who is Samuel Tilden?
A person who works a plot of land in exchange for a part of the harvest.
Who is a sharecropper?
Laws passed after Reconstruction that forcefully separated people of different races
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Carpetbagger whose report on the conditions of the South after the war was ignored by Andrew Johnson
Who was Carl Schurz?
Name of Southern women's organizations that helped to honor the Confederate dead and spread the 'Lost Cause' narrative
What are the Ladies' Memorial Associations?
Received the office of the presidency in exchange for removing Federal Troops from the South during the Compromise of 1877
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
People who traveled to the South to help in Reconstruction; many Southerners criticized them
What are carpetbaggers?
Women's suffrage organization that supported Black Men's right to vote and the 15th Amendment
What is the American Woman's Suffrage Association (AWSA)?
Organizers of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, had racist tactics and rejected the 15th Amendment
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton AND Susan B Anthony?
The precursor to Memorial Day, this was a day first celebrated by Black Southerners to honor and remember the Union dead
What is Decoration Day?