Reconstruction
What was the name of the group, made up of former Confederate soldiers, that used terror to intimidate Black voters?
The Klu Klux Klan
Who is Harriet Tubman?
She helped hundreds of slaves escape from the south before the Civil War on the Underground Railroad.
What is Secession?
This word means to leave the Union.
What is the Dredd Scott case?
This Supreme Court case said that black people weren’t citizens of America and had no rights.
What were the three different plans for Reconstruction after the Civil War?
Lincoln's Plan, Johnson's Plan, and the Radical Republican's Plan
What was the 13th Amendment?
Banned slavery
This person was elected president of the United States in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
What is Sharecropping?
This system allowed landowners to rent land to poor farmers in exchange for a part of their harvest.
These 3 amendments granted basic rights to all Americans regardless of race.
13th,14th, and 15th amendments
South Carolina was the first state to issue a declaration of ____________, or withdrawal from the union.
secession
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This government program provided Black people with assistance after the war.
This person tried to start a slave uprising at Harper’s Ferry in 1859.
John Brown
The House of Representatives voted to _____________ President Johnson when he was formally charged with misconduct.
Impeach
What was the result of the civil war?
Slavery had ended
What was one effect of Lincoln's election as president in 1860?
Southern states began seceding from the Union.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
A law that gave all black people in the United States citizenship
This person led the Union army during the Civil War.
Ulysses S Grant
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This system proposed to let the people of each new state decide if they would allow slavery or not.
What were two beliefs that motivated abolitionists?
slavery was immoral
All enslaved people should be freed immediately and completely
Which two groups does Lincoln say will help protect the freedom of newly freed African Americans?
The United States government
The military
What is the Radical Republicans?
A group that wanted to use Reconstruction to punish Confederates, reshape the South, and promote Black equality.
This person became president after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. His Reconstruction plan was even more lenient than Lincoln’s—he pardoned most Confederate leaders, allowed them back into government, and supported Black Codes that effectively restored slavery.
President Johnson
What is Debt Peonage?
This system trapped poor farmers into a form of slavery.
What was one effect of Lincoln's election as president in 1860?
Southern states began seceding from the union.
Which two ways did the Freedmens Bureau make a difference in the lives of freed African Americans?
Tackled the issue of illiteracy
Gave them education
Provided a way for work issues to be handled fairly
provide housing and food for them