Laws that restricted the rights of African Americans after the war:
What are Black Codes
A separation by race or religion, made by Jim Crow Laws
What is segregation
Democratic candidate who almost won the Presidential election in 1876:
Samuel J. Tilden
Name one radical republican senator who helped pass the civil rights act of 1866:
Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner
This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union
What is the 10% Plan
The man who became one of the leading voices for civil rights after the Civil War. Also helped initially to get black soldiers the right to serve in the military:
Who is Frederick Douglass
Provided all men in the United States the right to vote:
15th Amendment
This is the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South to buy Southern land
What are carpetbaggers
This Civil War general applied for a pension after being shot in the groin and was denied by the VA
Joshua Chamberlain
President who got into scandals during the reconstruction era for appointing friends to office.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
Under Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plan, how many people in a Southern state would be required to swear allegiance in order to rejoin the Union?
1 (The Governor)
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a portion of the crop raised on that land
What is sharecropping
The President at the end of the Reconstruction Era. His election marked the end of reconstruction.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Name of the secretary of war responsible for conducting the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln
Edwin Stanton
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the United States" - Which law is this?
What is the 13th amendment
These were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force changes in Southern life and politics in favor of African American rights
What are Radical Republicans
Which Southern, non border state was vastly wealthy before the war and was only moderately wealthy after the war:
Virginia