Freedmen challenges
what word means seperating people of diffrent races
segragation
This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote
15th Amendment
This man made the 10% plan
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The ____________ tests required voters to read and explain a difficult part of the Constitution. Since few African American's had an education and couldn't read, it kept them away from the polls.
Literacy tests
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
what laws made blacks and whites seperated in schools,resturants,etc.
Jim Crow Laws
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
This man was president in 1876 and ended the reconstruction period.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
These are white Southerners who supported the new Republican governments. They wanted to forget the war, and rebuild the South.
What are scalawags
Lincolns signed this bill to help provide ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, clothes, and education
What is Freedmen's Bureau
This group supported white supremacy and terrorized African Americans
Ku Klux Klan
This Amendment granted citizenship and equal rights to African Americans
14th Amendment
This president was one vote away from being impeached and ratified the 13th Amendment
Who is Andrew Johnson
This is the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South
What are carpetbaggers
This word means "forgiveness."
Example, Lincoln granted full ________ (forgiveness) to confederates who swore loyalty to the south)
Amnesty
This Supreme Court case in 1896 ruled that segregation was legal (so long the facilities for blacks/whites were equal)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The period in time after the Civil War to help rebuild the South
What is Reconstruction
This Democrat ran in the 1876 election against Rutherford B. Hayes, but lost the election.
Who is samuel tillden
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land.
Many freedmen had no money to buy land, so the __________ system came to allow freedman to farm land, however it kept them poor and unable to earn money or buy land of their own.
What is sharecropping
This action means to "bring formal charges of wrong doing against an elected official/president"
impeach
These forbade African Americans to vote, own guns, and serve on juries
What are Black Codes
This amendment creates African-American freedom
What is the 13th amendment
After Andrew Johnson, this man became president. He was a great war hero of the civil war
Ulysses S. Grant
These were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force radical changes in Southern life and politics
What are Radical Republicans
What were the 3 voting restrictions that were put into place to purposefully keep African Americans from being able to vote?
1. Polling Taxes
2. Literacy Tests
3. Grandfather Clause