The period from 1865 to 1877 in which programs were created to reunite the South with the North
What is Reconstruction?
100
U.S. President after Lincoln's assassination who imposed his own Reconstruction policies without approval of Congress.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
100
Unjust treatment of someone based on prejudice.
What is discrimination?
100
Separation of the races
What is segregation?
100
The politican party of Andrew Johnson
What is the Democratic Party?
200
A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War for political gain.
Who is a carpetbagger?
200
President Johnson's firing of this Secretary of War violated the Tenure of Office Act and gave the Congress grounds for impeachment proceedings.
Who is Edwin Stanton?
200
This act divided the South into five military districts.
What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
200
A government pardon for an offense.
What is amnesty?
200
These three amendments to the U.S. Constitution gave various rights and protections for former slaves.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
300
The Federal agency created to help emancipated African American adjust to life as free people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
He was the Union general who led the Freemen's Bureau.
Who was General Oliver Otis Howard?
300
The process of charging a high public official, such as the President, with a crime.
What is impeachment?
300
Some white Southerns opposed to Reconstruction formed this secret society to terrorize African Americans and prevent them from voting.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
300
This date would be on Lincoln's death certificate.
What is April 15, 1865?
400
A system of farming in which farmers worked another's land and used part of their crops as rent.
What is sharecropping?
400
Benjamin Butler, Thaddeus Stevens, and Charles Sumner were some of the leaders.
Who were Radical Republicans?
400
The name of any law that enforced segregation in schools, restaurants, railroad cars, and other public places.
What were Jim Crow laws?
400
This bill gave citizenship to African Americans and protected their rights, was vetoed by President Johnson, but was made into law with 2/3 vote of Congress, overriding Johnson's veto.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
400
The Compromise of 1877 did this.
What is naming Rutherford B. Hayes the President of the United States and ending Reconstruction?
500
A white Southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction.
Who was a Scalawag?
500
Kansas U.S. Senator whose vote of "no" prevented President Johnson's removal from office.
Who is Edmund Ross?
500
The biggest success of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is setting up schools?
500
The constitutional amendment that stated that anyone born or naturalized in the United States (except Native Americans) and ruled by its laws would be U.S. citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
The oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery, with the ending of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865.