The process by which a United States President can be accused of a crime and removed from office if found guilty.
What is impeachment?
100
This area of Tennessee was hit hard by a deadly epidemic that killed thousands during the 1870s.
What is West Tennessee?
100
This is the term for the efforts of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson to return the former Confederate States to the Union.
What was Presidential Reconstruction?
200
Abraham Lincoln chose him as his vice-presidential running mate in 1864.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
Abolished slavery in the United States.
What is 13th amendment?
200
A system that replaced slavery and the plantation system in the South after the Civil War by allowing former slaves to rent land.
What is sharecropping?
200
This was established to provide food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites after the Civil War.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
Congressional Reconstruction was led by this group in Congress.
What were the Radical Republicans?
300
New members of Southern society that came from the North to the South after the war to either teach, help, or to make a profit.
Who are carpetbaggers?
300
This required a voter to pay money in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
300
This disease is transmitted by infected mosquitoes.
What is yellow fever?
300
A Nashville University that was established to educate former slaves.
What is Fisk University?
300
This plan allowed the former Confederate leaders to be elected to office.
What was the Presidential Plan?
400
The name of the secret organization that terrorized blacks and their white supporters in an effort to restore the "Old South"?
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
This gave voting rights to all male citizens regardless of race, color, or because they had been made slaves.
What is the 15th amendment?
400
The practice of keeping people of different races apart such as in schools.
What is segregation?
400
A southerner that agreed with and helped the Reconstruction government in the South after the Civil War.
What was a scalawag?
400
This plan put the South under military rule.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
500
The President that ended Reconstruction by removing the military from the South.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
This event changed Tennessee laws and allowed the use of poll taxes which were used to fund public schools as long as blacks and whites were not educated in the same schools.
What is the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1870?
500
A person or group that pursues and punishes people without having the legal authority to do so.
What is a vigilante?
500
Southern laws that attempted to limit the rights of freedmen.
What are Black Codes?
500
This plan wanted to change the South and protect the rights of former slaves.