Legislation
This constitutional amendment officially abolished slavery throughout the entire United States in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He was assassinated on April 14, 1865, just days after the Civil War ended.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Lincoln's lenient plan required this percentage of voters in a Southern state to swear loyalty to the Union.
What is 10 percent?
The derogatory nickname given to Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to seek economic opportunities.
What are carpetbaggers?
In his 2nd Inaugural Address, Lincoln urged Americans to act with "____________toward none"
What is malice?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
He became president after Lincoln's death and was later the first U.S. president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Under the Reconstruction Act of 1867, Congress divided the former Confederacy into this many military districts.
What is 5?
An agricultural system where freedmen farmed a landowner's soil in exchange for a portion of the crops, often resulting in the cycle of poverty/ debt.
What is sharecropping?
The word "malice" in Lincoln's speech means this negative feeling or attitude.
What is hatred or bad feelings
This amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
He won the disputed election of 1876 after agreeing to remove federal troops from the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The federal agency established to provide food, healthcare, and schools to newly freed slaves and poor Southerners.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Laws passed by Southern states immediately after the Civil War to severely limit African American freedoms and work options.
What are Black Codes?
A newspaper headline reading "Former Slaves Made Citizens" would refer to the passage of this amendment
What is the 14th Amendment?
Southern states passed these requirements forcing citizens to pay a fee before casting a ballot.
What are poll taxes?
He was the Democratic candidate who lost the disputed presidential election of 1876 to Rutherford B. Hayes.
Who is Samuel J. Tilden?
President Andrew Johnson was impeached after violating this law by firing his Secretary of War.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
State and local laws that forcibly separated Black and white Americans in public places until the 1960s.
This Civil Rights icon who challenged bus segregation in 1955 is often viewed as a modern parallel to Homer Plessy.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This rule allowed uneducated white men to skip literacy tests if their father or grandfather was eligible to vote before 1867.
What is the grandfather clause?
An African American man arrested for sitting in a "whites-only" Louisiana train car to challenge segregation laws.
Who is Homer Plessy?
This political agreement officially brought an end to the Reconstruction Period in 1877.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The famous Supreme Court ruling that legalised racial segregation under the idea of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, at this Virginia location.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?