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Vocabulary
Reconstruction
100
Who assassinated President Lincoln in Ford's Theater?
John Wilkes Booth
100
This was a special payment a person had to pay inorder to vote.
Poll Tax
100
What are Black Codes?
Laws that limited the freedom of African Americans
100
Who are carpetbaggers?
Northern born Republicans Making a profit off of Reconstruction
100
This person's plan required 10% of the voters of a state to take a loyalty oath.
Lincoln's 10% Plan
200
He was impeached by Congress, but was one vote away from begin removed from office.
Andrew Johnson
200
What are Jim Crow laws?
Laws that inforced segregation in public places
200
Give two examples of Black Codes.
They can not rent property Must sign contracts agreeing to be called servants, and employers masters Can not own a gun Must prove employment
200
Why were Southern born Republicans called scalawags?
They were seen as traitors to the other Southerners, who were mostly Democrats.
200
This plan required a majority of all men in a state had to take a loyalty oath
Wade-Davis Bill
300
He was elected president in 1868 because of his war record.
Ulysses S. Grant
300
This amendment made illegal everywhere in the United States.
13th Amendment
300
What is the 14th Amendment?
Guarantees citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
300
This was a secret society that used violence and terror to keep African Americans from obtaining civil rights.
Ku Klux Klan
300
This plan required all high ranking Confederate officals to ask for a presidental pardon.
Johnson's Plan
400
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes's runningmate in the 1876 election?
Samuel Tilden
400
This allows any man whose father or grandfather voted before 1867 to avoid the poll tax.
Grandfather clause
400
This court case made separate but equal legal in the U.S.
Plessy v. Ferguson
400
Define Amnesty
A pardon for committing illegal acts
400
According to this plan, only people who swore they never supported the Confederacy, could vote or hold office.
Wade-Davis Bill
500
He attempted to board a first class train car, but was arrested for his actions.
Homer Plessy
500
What is the 15th Amendment?
Gave African American men the right to vote
500
This Act gave African Americans the right to sue private businesses for descrimination.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
500
What is sharecropping?
Landowners provide the land and supplies Laborers provide the work and the crops
500
This plan gave all property back to southerners, except slaves.
Johnson's Plan