| Term | Definition |
|---|
| What was the 13th amendment? | the amendment that abolished slavery |
| What was the 14th amendment?, | the amendment stating that all people born in the US have the same rights and are all born equal under the law |
| What was the 15th amendment?, | the amendment stating that a person cannot be denied the right to vote based on a citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude (ex. slavery) |
| What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?, | the act that declared that all people born in the US were citizens and get equal rights despite race |
| What were the conditions of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?, | in order to reenter the Union southern states must 1-approve new state constitutions which gave all adult men the right to vote 2-ratify the 14th amendment |
| What is impeachment?, | when the president is accused by the House of Representatives of improper conduct |
| Where were the places the African Americans went when they were freed?, | 1-to find family members 2-cities 3-the places where they were born 4-anywhere (just because they could) |
| What were the problems with the sharecropping system?, | 1-conflicting goals (farmers wanted family food and small profit, landowners wanted cash crop) 2-cycle of debt |
| What were the goals of the KKK?, | 1-to restore democratic power 2-to keep former slaves powerless |
| Describe the actions of the KKK., | beat people, burned homes, lynching |
| Who became president in 1868?, | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| What were the terms of the Compromise of 1877?, | 1-Rutherford B. Hayes is president 2-provide land grants and loans for railroads 3-south recieves funds for construction and improvements 4-Hayes appoints a democrat to cabinet 5-south recieves funds for construction and improvements 6-democrats promise to respect African American civil and political rights |
| What was Reconstruction?, | the process the government used to readmit the CSA |
| Who became president when Lincoln was assassinated?, | Andrew Johnson |
| What were Black Codes?, | laws limiting the freedom of former slaves |
| Who were Radical Republicans?, | republicans who wanted the federal government to take an active role in remaking southern policies and society |
| What was a Carpetbagger?, | white northerners who rushed south after the civil war for wealth purposes |
| What was a Scalawag?, | rich white planters (landowners) blamed my poor farmers for starting the war |
| What was the Tenure of Office Act? | What did it lead to?,the act stating that the president cannot fire government officials without approval by the senate |
| What was the Freedmen's Bureau?, | a bureau formed by Lincoln before he was assassinated for former slaves |
| What were Freedmen's Schools?, | schools set up by the Freedmen's Bureau, northern missionaries, and African American organizations to educate former slaves |
| What were the goals of the Freedmen's Bureau?, | to set up schools and hospitals for African Americans and to distribute food and clothing to said people |
| What were the goals of Freedmen's Schools?, | to make former slaves economically independent |
| What was the Contract System?, | an agreement between a landowner and a farmer that farmer would provide landowner with crop, landowner would provide farmer with protection, housing, and food |
| What is lynching?, | killing without trial as a punishment for a supposed crime |
| What was the Panic of 1873? What was its effect on Reconstruction?, | economic depression occuring in 1873-slows reconstruction |
| What was segregation?, | separation between people of different color |
| Who was Rosa Parks?, | woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man and was arrested for it |
| What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?, | the boycott of montgomery buses for the year of 1955 as a result of Rosa Parks' situation |
| What were Jim Crow Laws?, | laws meant to maintain segregation |
| What was the Grandfather Clause?, | the clause stating that if a person's ancestor could vote in 1867, said person could too |
| What court case made "separate but equal" legal?, | Plessy vs. Ferguson |
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