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Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
A Radical Republican leader in Pennsylvania.
What did the 14th Amendment do?
It gave all citizens that are born into the United States equal protections of the law.
What does impeach mean?
To bring formal charges against a person who holds public office with misconduct.
What were literacy tests for?
This was something that stopped some blacks from being able to vote because what it did was required voters to read and explain a section of the constitution to vote.
Who was Henry Grady?
He was a Atlanta Journalist.
Who is James Duke?
A man that revolutionized the manufacturing of tobacco products.
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Forbid any state to deny any citizen the right to vote
What is Poll tax?
This required voters to pay a fee each time they voted.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
This was a group that worked to keep African Americans and White Republicans out of office.
What did they mean by the "NEW SOUTH"?
That the South Independently used its own resources to build its industry up.
Who is Hiram Revels?
A clergyman and teacher that became the nations first black senator in 1870.
What was the Reconstruction Act?
It was a process set in motion readmitting southern states into the union.
What is a Conservative?
A type of person who wants as little change as possible and hold onto traditional values.
What was segregation?
It was the legal separation of races.
What is a Scalawag ?
A word for a white southern republican.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The Republicans choice as Governor of New York but lost to Samuel Tilden. Hayes ended Reconstruction.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
A set of laws that state if a voters father or grandfather had been eligible to vote Jan 1st, 1867. That the voter did not have to take a literacy test.
What are Radical Republicans?
They are a group of stern Republican politicians during and after the civil war.
What were black codes?
They were laws placed on African Americans that limited the rights of Freedmen.
What is a carpetbagger?
It was a Northerner who came to the South to get rich off of the South's misery.
Who is Blanche K. Bruce?
Bruce became the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate in 1874.
What are Jim Crowe Laws?
Laws that separated blacks in many places like restaurants, schools, and many other places.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
A time period in 1867, where Republicans took charge of congress to override vetos.
What was the Plessy V. Ferguson case?
A case where courts ruled it was legal to segregate as long as there were facilities for African Americans and whites, equal but separate.
What is a Sharecropper?
They rented and farmed a plot of land. The planters provided supplies and tools in return for a share of the crop.