Important Terms Reconstruction Acts People Misc. 100 200 300 400 500

Important Terms What ended Slavery in the U.S. Forever? Answer: 13th Amendment

Important Terms Amendment that makes all people born in the US a citizen, and equally protects all people in front of the law. Answer: 14th Amendment

Important Terms What are the 2 steps to impeachment??? Answer: (1)To bring formal criminal charges against the president of the United States (2) with a trial after to decide if to remove from office.

Important Terms Law that allows all adult males in the United States to vote, regardless of race. Answer: 15th Amendment

Important Terms The legal separation of the races in public facilities. Answer: Segregation

Reconstruction Acts What was the basic difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction? Answer: Harsh on south vs easy on south

Reconstruction Acts What was the 2 major provisions that Andrew Johnson wanted the South to observe as part of his Reconstruction Plan? Answer: South must abolish slavery and they must repeal their succession ordinance

Reconstruction Acts Who were the Radical Republicans and who were their biggest concern? Answer: Republicans in Congress & African Americans

Reconstruction Acts Because of his lack of action in Congress’s opinion what happened to President Johnson? Answer: Impeached but not thrown out of office

Reconstruction Acts Name 3 provisions (parts) of the Reconstruction Act by Congress Answer: Disband Southern state governments Write new state constitutions Ratify 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments Military took control of the South

People Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865? Answer: Andrew Johnson

People Who became President in the Compromise of 1877 Answer: Rutherford B Hayes

People Who was the leader of the Union military during the Civil War, and eventually became president of the United States? Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

People Who Proposed the Reconstruction Act Answer: Radical Republicans

People Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case that said races can legally be separated in society, so long as the conditions were “SEPARATE BUT EQUAL” Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson

Misc. What two voting requirements did Southern states begin to pass after the end of the Civil War? Answer: Poll Tax + Literacy Test

Misc. How did Southern state governments find a way to allow whites to vote, while still keeping blacks out of voting booths, and NOT violating the 15th Amendment. Answer: Grandfather Clause

Misc. A series of laws created to prohibit African Americans from achieving full equality. Answer: Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws

Misc. A Northerner who ran down South after the war in order to take advantage of the poor economy, perhaps by opening a store. Answer: Carpetbagger

Misc. Set up to advance newly freed slaves Ex. Jobs and Education Answer: Freedmen Bureau