VOCAB
The period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Conservatives, Moderates, or Radicals: They supported Black Americans voting, owning property, going to schools, and running for office.
Who are Radicals?
This man was the most famous black American in the 1800s and was famous for escaping slavery and writing his autobiography.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
These three amendments provided rights to freedmen after the Civil War.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
An agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What is one vote?
This agriculural system in the South led to a lifetime of poverty and debt for freedmen.
What is sharecropping?
Guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
Johnson's reconstuction plan was (EASY or HARD) on the South,
The man that replaced Johnson as President in 1867.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What is 2000?
Abolished slavery in the United States of America.
What is the 13th Amendment?
An insult used by southerners to describe a white southern Republican.
What is a scalawag?
Southern States had to ratify this amendment before they could rejoin the Union.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Radical Republicans had to do this in order to pass laws under President Andrew Johnson.
Override Johnson's vetos.
A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote.
What is a literacy test?
This protected the right to vote for African American men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
An insult to describe Northerners who moved down south to "make profit off southern misery."
What are carpet baggers?
This group believed stronger measures should be taken against the South during Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This act was passed over Johnson's veto and divided the south into 5 territories with federal troops stationed in each territory.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
Who was the first African American to be elected to the United States Senate?
Who is Hiram Revels?
What is the 14th Amendment?