Was a part of Lincolns reconstruction plan, a southern state could be readmitted into a union once 10% of its voters swore an oath.
What is Ten Percent Plan
100
Outlaws slavery, slavery can only be a punishment, congress has power to enforce it by appropriate legislation
What is 13th Amendment
100
Laws passed by southern states in 1860 and 1866 after the civil war and effect of restricting black freedom and denied blacks of rights
What is black codes
100
Us federal government agency established in the 1860s to freedmen in the south during reconstruction era of the united states, also helped poor whites
What is Freedmens Bureau
100
Lincolns vice president during his reelection and when Lincoln was assassinated he resumed the presidency
What is Andrew Johnson
200
A bill proposed for the reconstruction of the south written by two radical republicans.
What is wade- davis bill
200
Originally intended to protect legal rights of the freed slaves. of it denied citizens the right to vote there reduced.
What is 14th Amendment
200
Written to get around the federal laws that overrode the black codes. "Separate but equal"
What is Jim crow laws
200
a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections
What is Carpetbaggers
200
Famous for the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation proclamtion and being a president
What is Abraham Lincoln
300
Famous for the Gettysburg address, emancipation proclamation and a president.
What is Abraham Lincoln
300
Prohibits the government from denying a person's right to vote on the basis of race,congress should have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
What is 15th amendment
300
action of state or setting somone or something apart from other people or things being set apart
What is segregation
300
Derogatory term used for white southerns who cooperated with republicans
What is Scalawags
300
Over saw the end of reconstruction and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from civil war
What is Rutherford B. Hayes
400
Was Lincoln's vice president during his reelection and when lincoln was assassinated, he assumed the presidency.
What is Andrew Johnson
400
Often called the civil war amendments because they grew out of that great conflict
What is 13,14 and 15th amendments
400
A tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources?required to pay to be able to vote
What is poll tax
400
A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent
What is sharecroppers
400
Commanded the victorious union army during american civil wat and served as president
What is U.S Grant
500
Process where an official is accused of unlawful activity and may include the removel of that official from office.
What is Impeachment
500
Prohibits poll taxes in federal elections, prior to this amendment, some states used such taxes to keep low income african americans from voting.
What is 24 amendment
500
An exam to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting and serving in armed forces, Test about state history and the US federal government
What is Literacy test
500
Refers to a concept in the US for agrarian reform for former enslaved african american farmers, following disruptions to the insttitution of slavery provoked by civil war