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President assassinated shortly after the Civil War
Who is Lincoln?
These laws were used to restrict African American freedoms in the South following emancipation
What are Black Codes?
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
This white supremacist terrorist group included many Southern politicians
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Widely disliked Southerner who became president after his predecessor was assassinated
Who is Johnson?
These racial segregation laws were named after a popular blackface perfomance
What are Jim Crow laws?
This system of farming was used to keep African Americans in a cycle of poverty
What is sharecropping?
This administration was set up t meet the needs of recently emancipated African Americans in the South
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Union general whose presidency was well known for its corruption
Who is Grant?
This amendment outlawed chattel slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
To convict a president of wrongdoing while in office
What is impeachment?
This political faction fought for equal rights for African Americans
Who are the Radical Republicans?
His landmark Supreme Court case upheld segregation as constitutional
Who is Homer Plessy?
This law allowed citizens to vote (and bypass poll tests and taxes) if their ancestors could vote before 1867
What is the grandfather clause?
This term was used to describe Northerners who moved to the South to buy up cheap land after the Civil War
What is a carpetbagger?
This Reconstruction plan was also called the Ten Percent plan
What is Lincoln's?
Black activist and investigative journalist who campaigned to make lynching a federal crime
Who is Ida B. Wells?
What are two freedoms granted by the 14th amendment?
What are birthright citizenship and equal protection?
This derogatory term was used to describe a Southerner who supported Radical Republicanism
What is a scalawag?
This event pulled federal troops out of the South and officially ended Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?