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This President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War.
What was the Reconstruction?
This changed the Constitution, giving African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
This is a secret society that used violence to scare victims.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Much of this region was destroyed during the Civil War.
What was the South?
Because of his conflicts with Congress, this President's reconstruction plans did not become law.
Who was President Johnson?
These often paid their rent with cash from the crops they sold.
What are tenant farmers?
This was a law passed by Congress to end the Black Codes.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
These were Northerners who were elected officials in the South and took advantage of others.
What were Carpet Baggers?
This was when some American Indian tribes, who supported the Confederacy during the war, were forced to relocate further west and other Indian tribes were forced onto their land.
What was the Second Great Indian Removal?
This President appointed his friends to government jobs and they caused several scandals.
Who was President Grant?
This is what Congress did to President Johnson, but they did not force him to leave office.
What is impeached?
This said that the Bill of Rights covered African Americans as well as whites.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This political group wanted to punish the former Confederate States.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
During the Reconstruction some new _________, such as steel, developed in the South.
What are industries?
This was the candidate who became President without winning the popular vote.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
This was an agency established to provide help to former slaves.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This put 10 Southern states under military control.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
In 1876, this celebrated the 100th birthday of the United States.
What was the Centennial Exhibition?
Many women were more _____________ independent because they had jobs.
What is financially?
The goal of this President's Reconstruction plan was to rebuild the Union quickly.
Who was Abraham Lincoln.
These were white Southerners who controlled African American politicians.
What were scalawags?
The purpose of these were to stop the Freedmen from voting, owning certain kinds of land, and working certain skilled jobs
What were the Black Codes?
These people paid for the use of the land they farmed by giving the landowner a large portion of the crops they grew.
What are sharecroppers?
When neither candidate won a majority of electoral votes, the election was settled by this. It resulted in Rutherford B. Hayes being named President when he made a deal to end Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?