Vocabulary
The period from 1865 to 1877 in which the southern states that had seceded during the American Civil War rejoined the United States
What is Reconstruction?
This plan was also called the 10% Plan.
What is Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?
This Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This group terrorized Republican politicians and voters in the South to stop Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This is the high school that Mr. Wheelwright went to.
What is Jefferson Township High School?
Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This plan was the most lenient and allowed former Confederate leaders to regain control of Southern state governments.
What is Johnson's Plan?
This Amendment gave African Americans citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Republicans were blamed for this economic crisis that caused banks to close, businesses to shut down, and unemployment to rise.
What is the Panic of 1873?
This is the High School that Mr. Connors went to.
What is Sparta High School?
A northern Republican who moved to the South after the American Civil War.
What is a carpetbagger?
This plan was the most radical and called for a complete change of Southern society.
What is the Congressional Reconstruction Plan?
This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This scandal caused Republicans to lose power in the Federal government and State governments.
What is the Whiskey Ring?
This Butler High School staff member used to referee Mr. Wheelwright's middle school basketball games.
Who is Principal Fitzgerald?
Republican Southerners who sought to gain political power following the Civil War during the Reconstruction Era.
What is a Scalawag?
The main reason why Lincoln's Plan was not effective at rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
What is Lincoln's assassination?
This organization created by Congress provided food, education, job assistance, and medical care to poor Southern whites and newly freed African Americans.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This led to the official removal of Federal Troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This famous athlete was born in Akron, Ohio on December 30th, 1984.
Who is Lebron James?
A type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.
What is sharecropping?
The amount of people President Johnson pardoned (forgave) after the American Civil War.
What is more than 13,000?
This describes the relationship between the National and State governments during Congressional Reconstruction.
What is the National government having more power over the States?
He became President as a result of the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Who is the Rizzler?