What term refers to the plan for rebuilding the South after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Whose plan for Reconstruction said state governments must be disbanded, states must write new constitutions, states had to ratify the 14th Amendment and allow African Americans to vote?
Radical Republicans
Who was the first president to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
What amendment freed the slaves?
13th Amendment
What was the name given to laws designed to limit the rights of blacks? The laws were passed immediately after the war.
Black codes
What was the political party of the conservative group in the South that didn’t want the South to change from how it was before the war?
Democrats
Voters had to pay a fee in order to vote.
Poll tax
What was the name given to the government organization designed to help former slaves?
Freedman’s Bureau
What group’s goal was to break the power of rich southern planters?
Radical Republicans
What was it called when former slaves worked land and in return had to pay off a part of their crop and the cost of rent / seed in return? Most never made enough to pay off their debts.
sharecropping
People could vote if they could read and explain a section of the Constitution.
Literacy test
Group who used violence to harass freedmen.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What happened virtually every time Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill passed by Congress?
Congress overrode the veto
What was the name given to southern Republicans who cooperated with Reconstruction?
Scalawags
Who proposed the 10% Plan of Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln
What amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?
15th Amendment
Name given to former slaves.
freedmen
What plan of reconstruction said that a person could not participate in government if they volunteered for the Confederate army?
Wade –Davis Bill
What term means the legal separation of the races?
segregation
A person could vote if their father or grandfather had voted.
Grandfather clause
Whose plan of reconstruction said that a majority of people had to pledge loyalty to the United States and states had to ratify the 13 th Amendment?
Andrew Johnson
Was Andrew Johnson removed from office when he was impeached?
No
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner belonged to which political group.
Radical Republicans
Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction for their own personal benefit?
carpetbaggers
What amendment made former slaves citizens?
14th Amendment
What laws kept African Americans from gaining political and economic power immediately after the war was over?
Black codes
Laws which segregated blacks and whites.
Jim Crow Laws
Supreme Court case which made segregation legal if facilities were equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Sharecropping was very similar to what?
slavery
In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
1865
Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
Ford’s Theater
Who was afraid of competition from freedmen?
Poor in the South and factory workers in the North
In 1866 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act granting citizenship to African Americans. What amendment did this create?
14th Amendment