Vocabulary
The twelve year period following the Civil War. A rebuilding of our nation in an effort to bring the North and South back together.
What is Reconstruction?
I negotiated the purchase of Alaska as Secretary of State under President Andrew Johnson. Many considered the purchase a folly.
Who is William Seward?
This Amendment granted citizenship to black people
What is the 14th Amendment?
In the South, voters had to pass this test to be allowed to vote.
What is a literacy test?
These restrictive laws on black people were passed in southern states. They were meant to keep black people in an inferior position to white people.
What are black codes?
This Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
No longer a slave. I am now called this.
Who is a freedman?
Congress plan for Reconstruction requiring 50% of a state's white males to take an oath of allegience to the Union before being re-admitted.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
If a voter didn't have the money, they didn't get to vote because of this.
What is the poll tax?
These unwanted opportunistic Northerners came to the South during Reconstruction. They were named for the canvas material their bags were made of.
What are carpetbaggers?
Confederates were denied this right after the war until the Amnesty Act of 1872.
What is the right to vote?
We are the group of Senators and Representatives in Congress who were opposed to Lincoln and Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This legislation divided the South into 5 military districts (except Tennessee) to ensure that the South followed laws enacted by Congress.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
The South was given this nickname based on their Democratic voting record for almost 100 years following Reconstruction.
What is the Solid South?
These southern towns were build near factories and featured rows of identical houses, churches, school, and a company store.
What is a mill town?
I was unpopular in the South as a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction.
Who is a scalawag?
I was the first president to be impeached but I was not removed from office because of ONE vote in the Senate.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment to the Constitution declares that a citizen's right to vote will not be denied on account of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
Faced with freedom but no money or resources, many southern black Americans turned to this form of farm-sharing as a way to begin a new life. It deeply indebted most of them, though, locking many black Americans into lifelong poverty.
What is sharecropping?
I was the first First Lady to have a college education. I earned this nickname because I didn't allow alcoholic drinks in the White House.
Who is Lemonade Lucy (Hayes)?
I won the Disputed Election of 1876 when Congress appointed a special committee to resolve the disputed states and award the electoral votes.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
This violent terrorist group attacked blacks and Republican office holders. They tried to prevent blacks from voting through intimidation and violence.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?