Amendments
Made slavery illegal throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Agency that was started to help newly freed slaves.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Offered Southerns official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion.
What was the 10% plan?
The process of readmitting former confederate states tot he union.
What is Reconstruction?
Gave African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
First President to get impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The laws that greatly limited freedom of African Americans.
What are "Black Codes."
The plan that made southern states ban slavery and get a majority vote to rejoin the Union.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
Laws that limited the freedom of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
The Amendment that overturned the Dred Scott ruling.
What is the 14th Amendment?
General in the Civil War that later became president.
Who is Grant?
Opposed civil rights and used violence as a means to terrify minorities.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Took a harsh stance and wanted to force change in the south.
Who were Radical Republicans?
Special tax the people had to pay before they could vote.
What is a Poll Tax?
The Amendment that broke the American Anti-slavery Society.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Lincoln vetoed this bill.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
The Act that provided African Americans with the same rights as white people.
What is the Rights Act of 1866?
Divided the south into five districts.
What were the Reconstruction Acts?
The case in which the Supreme Court ruled "separate-but-equal" facilities are okay.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Defined all people born or naturalized with the United States, except Native Americans, as citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Led to Johnson being impeached.
What was the firing of Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, from office after the Senate voted not to concur with his dismissal?
First African American Senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
Democrats accepted Hayes's presidential victory and in return wanted federal troops removed from the south, ending Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoings against a public official.
What is impeachment?