He shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next morning.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
100
This plan called for the ratification of the 13th amendment, the majority of white men must swear and oath of loyalty, and former Confederate officials would be allowed to vote and hold office.
What is Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
100
These are enslaved people who had been freed by the war.
What are freedmen?
100
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th?
100
This secret southern society used terror tactics to keep blacks from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
He won the presidency in 1876 thanks to a closed-door deal in which he promised to end reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
200
This plan required a mere 10% of citizens in each state to swear an oath of loyalty to the U.S.
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
200
These new laws were used by southern states to control African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
200
This amendment guarantees citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
What is the 14th?
200
This provision allowed a voter to skip the literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867.
What is the grandfather clause?
300
He was the first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
This plan said that African American men must be allowed to vote.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
300
Southern White Republicans
What are scalawags?
300
This amendment had a provision that declared that any state that denies the right to vote to any male citizen over the age of 21 will have its representation in Congress reduced.
What is the 14th?
300
This was a personal tax to be paid before voting.
What is a poll tax?
400
He won the presidential election of 1868, and promptly gave appointments to his friends.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
This plan was not signed by Lincoln, so it never became a law.
What is the Wade-Davis bill?
400
Northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursue political careers during reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
400
This amendment took effect in 1870.
What is the 15th?
400
This was a test to see if a person could read or write.
What is a literacy test?
500
He was the nation's first black senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
500
This reconstruction plan would have granted amnesty to former Confederates who took an oath of loyalty.
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
500
To bring formal charges against a public official.
What is impeachment?
500
This amendment guaranteed Africal American males the right to vote.
What is the 15th?
500
This Supreme Court case produced the "Separate but Equal" ruling.