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Vocabulary
100

the 16th president of the United States and a member of the Republican Party.

Who is Abraham Lincoln

100

The conflict between the Northern States and the Southern States

What is the Civil War?

100
This amendment prohibited slavery, and involuntary servitude
What is the 13th amendment
100
All of the Southern states except for one, refushed to ratify the 14th amendment.
What is Tennesee
100

This is a pardon from taking Literacy Tests if Father or Grandfather was eligible to vote before January 1st, 1867.

What is the Grandfather Clause

200
assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth
200
This was the place where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
What is the Ford's Theater?
200
This amendment gave all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, religion, etc.
What is the 15th amendment
200

The valuable resources the North had during the Civil War

What are railroads, factories, and high population

200

These were laws that limited the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans

What are Black Codes

300

The vice president and successor of Abraham Lincoln

Who is Andrew Johnson

300

This group was established in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24, 1865. There goal was to put fear and terror into the newly freedmen.

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

300
This bill made blacks and whites equal.
What is the Civil Rights Bill
300

Divided the South into five military districts and outlined how new governments were to be established

What were the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1677

300

This was an agency the War Department set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.

What is the Freedman's Bureau 

400

Won the election of 1877

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes

400

This was a government agency created to help newly freedmen. 

What is the Freedmen Bureau?

400

This amendment gave citizenship to freed slaves.

What is the 14th amendment

400
These people won enough seats in Congress to override any of President Johnson's vetoes. As a result, Congress impeached President Johnson.
What are "Radical" Republicans
400

They were Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to take part in Reconstruction governments

What are Carpetbaggers?

500

The 18th president who is best known for his corrupt cabinet.

Who is Ulysses S. Grant

500

What event/compromise allowed for Southern Confederates to regain control of the South?

What is the Compromise of 1877?

500
President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
What is the 10 Percent Plan
500

The three requirements president Lincoln put on states who wanted to be readmitted to the Union, to restore the South on friendly terms

What are 10% of the states voters had to take an oath to obey the U.S. Constitution, each Southern state had to create a new state govt., each Southern state had to agree to abolish slavery

500

The process by which the southern states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War.

What is Reconstruction