Civil Rights
Reconstruction of the South
Codes, Laws, Amendments
People
Vocabulary
100
This made slavery illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
This plan offered southerners amnesty for illegal acts supporting the rebellion. 1 out of every 10 voters in a state had to make this pledge and they had to agree that slavery was illegal. It was President Lincoln's plan.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
100
This amendment made slavery illegal.
What is the 13th amendment?
100
This President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Who is President Lincoln?
100
To accuse a public official of a wrongful act or conduct in office.
What is impeach?
200
This special tax was one way southern states made it difficult for African Americans and poor whites to vote.
What was a Poll Tax?
200
Thaddeus Stevens was the leader of this group of Republicans who wanted to force change in the South.
What is the Radical Republicans?
200
This amendment made all people (except Native Americans) ,born in the United States, citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This President took office after President Lincoln was assassinated.
Who was President Johnson?
200
This word means to put an end to something. In this chapter slavery was ___________ in the United States.
What is abolish or abolished?
300
This was the forced separation of people based color enforced by Jim Crow laws.
What was segregation?
300
This plan was similar to Lincoln's plan, but also included more than 7,000 pardons for wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials.
What is Johnson's Plan?
300
These codes greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
300
This former general took office after President Johnson and ran under the slogan, "Let Us Have Peace."
Who was President Ulysses S. Grant?
300
These were names given to Republicans elected to public office in the South.
What is scalawag and carpetbagger?
400
This was a new system of farming in which landowners provided the tools, land and supplies.
What was sharecropping?
400
This agency supported poor whites and African Americans by providing food, education and legal advice.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
400
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What the 15th amendment?
400
This son of former slaves took Confederate president Jefferson Davis's Senate seat. He was the first African American elected to the Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?
400
Carpetbaggers were from this part of the United States.
What is the North?
500
This Supreme Court case challenged laws that separated people based on race in public places. The court ruled "separate-but-equal" was constitutional.
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
This president's plan was implemented, but Congress refused to readmit the former states because some officials were former leaders of the Confederacy.
What was Johnson's Plan?
500
This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment was passed because congress thought this Act was going to be overturned.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
500
This man took a seat in a "white's only" car on a train and was arrested.
Who was Homer Plessy or Plessy?
500
Part of Lincoln's plan was to give southerner's Amnesty for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion, define Amnesty.
What is official pardon?