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Elimination of Rights
100
He shot and killed Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
This plan required a small percentage of citizens in each state to swear an oath of loyalty to the U.S.
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
100
These are enslaved people who had been freed by the war.
Who 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 was the first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
The government agency that attempt to help the former slaves by setting up schools to help them read and write.
What is the Freedman’s Bureau?
200
These new laws were used by southern states to control African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
200
This amendment guaranteed African American males the right to vote.
What is the 15th?
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 won the presidential election of 1868, and promptly gave appointments to his friends.
Who is Ulysses. S. Grant?
300
They believed that the aim of republicanism was to create a new south where all men would enjoy equal rights
Who are Radical Republicans?
300
Southern White Republicans who opposed secession.
Who are scalawags?
300
This amendment guarantees citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
What is the 14th?
300
This was a personal tax to be paid before voting.
What is a poll tax?
400
He won the presidency in 1876 thanks to a closed-door deal in which he promised to end reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
400
First battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
Northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursue political careers during reconstruction.
Who are carpetbaggers?
400
You needed to possess this to still be able to vote following the 15th Amendment.
What is own land?
400
System used on southern farms in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for supplies.
What is sharecropping?
500
Why it was called the "New South"
What is because they would focus more on industrial production instead of growing natural resources?
500
The bill that called for 50% of Southern citizens to vote for reinstatement into the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
500
The definition of impeach, and the two U.S. Presidents who have been impeached.
What is to bring charges against a public official? Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.
500
The product of 13 * 14 * 15.
What is 2,730.
500
This Supreme Court case produced the "Separate but Equal" ruling.
What is Plessy v. Fergusson?