Reconstruction
This president created the 10% Plan for bringing former Confederate states back into the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
To officially approve something, such as a constitutional amendment.
What is ratify?
This Republican won the presidential election of 1868.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Reconstruction was primarily focused on rebuilding this region of the United States.
What is the South?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This group of Republicans in Congress wanted a stricter Reconstruction plan, expanded civil rights for African Americans, and greater federal control over the former Confederate states.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The right to vote in political elections.
What is suffrage?
African American voters helped provide this political party with its margin of victory in the election of 1868.
What was the Republican Party?
During the Civil War, this region of the United States was known as the Union.
What is the North?
This amendment established birthright citizenship and guaranteed due process.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This president offered general amnesty to most Southerners but excluded Confederate leaders and wealthy plantation owners.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
An official promise of loyalty, such as the one former Confederates were required to make during Reconstruction.
What is an oath?
Grant defeated this Democratic candidate in the election of 1872.
Who was Horace Greeley?
Lincoln recognized reconstructed governments in these three states in 1864.
What are Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas?
Ratified in 1870, this amendment guaranteed voting rights regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Congress renewed this organization to help freedpeople locate family members, receive an education, and obtain legal assistance.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
To officially reject a proposed law, an action taken several times by President Andrew Johnson.
What is veto?
These two candidates competed in the disputed presidential election of 1876.
Who were Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden?
Congressional Reconstruction recognized only this former Confederate state's government before establishing military rule throughout most of the South.
What is Tennessee?
These Southern laws restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans following the Civil War.
What were the Black Codes?
The 1867 Military Reconstruction Acts divided most former Confederate states into this many military districts.
What are five military districts?
The process by which the House of Representatives formally charges a government official with wrongdoing.
What is impeachment?
Although he lost the presidency, this candidate won the popular vote in the election of 1876.
Who was Samuel J. Tilden?
By 1876, federal troops remained in only these three Southern states.
What are South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana?
What are South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana?
These laws were passed between 1870 and 1871 to protect African American political rights and increase sanctions against the Ku Klux Klan.
What were the Enforcement/Force Acts?
This political agreement removed the remaining federal troops from the South and brought Reconstruction to an end.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
To be found not guilty of the charges brought against you, as Andrew Johnson was after his Senate impeachment trial.
What is acquitted?
The disputed electoral votes from these three Southern states ultimately determined the election of 1876.
What are South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana?
Following the end of Reconstruction, what economic condition did the South experience by 1900?
What is the South became the poorest region in the United States?
Andrew Johnson's violation of this controversial law contributed to the House adopting articles of impeachment against him.
What was the Tenure of Office Act?