assassinated Abraham Lincoln and was a Confederate sympathizer.
What do we call a pardon for a group of people?
amnesty
What were scalawags
Name given to Southern whites who had opposed secession
Name 3 methods southern states used to prevent African Americans from being treated equal.
The grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy tests, Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, segregation, black codes, KKK
What is the name given to northern whites who went south to start businesses or to pursue political careers during Reconstruction?
carpetbaggers
What was the Compromise of 1876
Southern Democrats allow Hayes to be president without rebelling if he ends Reconstruction.
Who do you think Southerners would have liked Lincoln's plan or the Radical Republicans plan for Reconstruction better?
Lincoln's plan
Who were excluded from citizen rights in the 14th amendment?
Native Americans
Who was Hiram Revels?
was the first Black senator of the US
What was Johnson's Plan?
issued a broad amnesty among former Confederates and allow southern states reorganize their new government
What were some of the KKK tactics to instill fear into African Americans and their sympathizers.
Ride at night, yelling threats, burning black houses/schools/churches/business, burn wooden crosses. whip, torture, hang African American/Republicans
What were enslaved people who had been freed by the war called?
freedman
What did the Freedman's Bureau do?
set up schools, jobs, and courts to settle disputes
What part of the South's economy began recovery first during Reconstruction
agriculture
How did the grandfather clause restrict voting?
It only allowed people to vote if their grandfathers voted in 1867 and back. African Americans weren't given the right to vote in the South until after 1868.
What was Lincoln's plan called and why?
Ten Percent Plan - 10% of voters swear loyalty to the Union then they can be in charge of organizing their new government
Who won the election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
Why was the KKK formed?
White southerners felt like their way of life was being threaten when Black Americans gained rights
What does KKK stand for?
Ku Klux Klan
What is a sharecropper
Black Americans who farmed land in return for a portion of the value of the crop.
What did the election of Rutherford B. Hayes signify about Reconstruction
It was the end/collapse of Reconstruction
What did the 14th Amendment say?
All people born or naturalized in the US are citizens
What did the 15th amendment do
Banned states from denying African American males the right to vote
Why did people call the South the "New South," during the 1880s
Because of the new industries appearing causing an industrial growth
What became a point of conflict during Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans and President Andrew Johnson on the plan for Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
He was Abraham's Vice President and became president after Lincoln's death.
Who wanted to impeach President Johnson?
the Radical Republicans
Who won the popular vote in the election of 1876? Hayes or Tilden?
Tilden
What was Abraham Lincoln's main goal during the beginning of Reconstruction
Quickly restore the Union
What was the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson
The Court said that a law could require "separate" facilities, so long as they were "equal."
Define segregation
enforced separation of races
What amendment banned the use of slavery and forced labor?
13th
Who won the election of 1868
Ulysses S. Grant
What did the Wade-Davis Bill propose?
1/2 of voters in the state had to pledge loyalty to the Union and no one with connections to the Confederacy were allowed to vote.
Why did sharecroppers (most of them) live in poverty?
They often owed landlords more than they made at the end of the year.
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