| Term | Definition |
|---|
| 1865 - 1877 | time of reconstruction |
| 1865 | 13th amendment |
| april 14 1865 | president lincoln is assanated |
| 1865 | andrew johnson becomes president |
| 1866 | civil rights act |
| 1868 | 14th amendment |
| 1868 | ulysses s grant is elected president |
| 1870 | 15th amendment |
| 1876 | ruthord b hays is elected president |
| 1877 | compromise where democrats except hay's victory |
| 1896 | plusst vs. ferguson |
| 1954 | segregation decision is reversed |
| andrew johnson | was a democrat lincoln's vice president who became the new president |
| edwin stanton | secretary of war who was going to be fired but then treasur of office act was made |
| ulysses s grant | northern canidate who wanted to help the african americans |
| ruthord b hays | republic democratic canidate in the election of 1876 he won |
| sam j tidden | democratic canidate in the elction of 1876 |
| homar plussy | refused to leave a white section of a train sewed the railroad for his rights being denied he lost |
| reconstruction | period following the civil war during which the US goverment worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states |
| ten percent plan | aberham lincoln's plan for reconstruction ounce 10% of voters in a former confederate state took a US loyalty oath they could form a new state goverment and be readmitted to the union had to say that slavery was legal |
| 13th amendment | constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery |
| freedmans bureau | agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor southern white people distrubuted food, fuel ,clothes, and ran schools |
| black codes | laws that greatly limited the freedom of african americans laws passed in southern states during reconstruction |
| radicial republicans | members of congress who wanted to make the south the north free schools small farms and respect for labor and political equality |
| 14th amendment | granted rights of citzenship |
| reconstruction acts | laws that put southern states under US military control called the period of ratical reconstruction |
| impeachment | procees used by a congress body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public offical |
| treasure of office act | president couldn't remove a cabinet member without senate aprroval |
| 15th amendment | gave african men a right to vote |
| carpetbaggers | white republicans moved south to make money of the reconstruction |
| scalawags | southerners who cared even less for the republicans |
| ku klux klan | secret society created by white southerners that used terror and violence to keepafrican americans from obtaining civil rights |
| poll tax | special tax people had to pay before they could vote a way to keep african americans from voting |
| segregation | forced seperation of black and white people in public places |
| jim crow laws | laws that made segregation official |
| sharecropping | sharing the crop owners provided the land supplie and tools sharecroppers provided labor they would sell the crop and then pay the owner back they would always be in debt to the owner |
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