American Civil War
Years the American Civil War were fought
When was 1861-1865?
Constitutional Amendment that eradicated slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This Constitutional Amendment granted citizenship to freedmen
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
military supervision of the Southern states from 1865 to 1877
What was the Reconstruction Act?
white Southern group that sought to oust Republican governments, disenfranchise African Americans, and restore white supremacy
Who were the "redeemers?"
Union president during the war
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln's approach to reunification
What was the Ten Percent Plan?
What were poll taxes?
enfranchisement and suffrage
What also means the privilege to vote?
white southerners who supported the Republican party and Reconstruction plans after the Civil War
Who were scalawags?
Political party of Abraham Lincoln
Who were the Republicans?
When was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
exams African Americans and poor whites were subjected to pass before being able to register to vote
What were literacy tests?
state that granted women's suffrage in 1870
What is Wyoming?
State in which the Ku Klux Klan were formed
Where is Tennessee?
One of Lincoln's speeches
What was House Divided, Gettysburg Address?
Radical Republican Congressmen wanted to ensure congressional control of Confederate states with readmission through this
What was the Ironclad Oath or Wade Davis Bill?
aided formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction by providing food, housing, medical care, education, and labor contract supervision
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
federal change to the US Constitution that provided voting rights not based on previous servitude
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
a person from the northern states who went South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction
Who was a carpetbagger?
Vice President to Abraham Lincoln
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This group of people believed Southern reunification was too lenient
Who were the Radical Republicans?
restrictive laws passed by Southern states immediately after the Civil War to severely inhibit freedoms
What were the Black Codes?
violating the Tenure of Office Act
What was the reason for which President Johnson was impeached?
a passionate abolitionist and statesman who fought for equal rights becoming a martyr for the anti-slavery cause
Who was Charles Sumner?