Chapter 8 Flashcards
To separate people from the rest of society because of differences, such as skin color or religion
Segregation
To accuse a public official in office of wrongdoing while in office
Impeach
Amendment to the Constitution that outlawed slavery
13th Amendment
A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to get a government job
Carpet Bager
A constitutional amendment to defend civil rights
14th Amendment
A white Southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction
Scaliwage
Laws passed by the Southern states that limited the rights of black Americans
Black Code
An act passed by Congress to establish military control of states that seceded from the Union and to ensure new governments had racial equality
Reconstruction of 1867
A constitutional amendment to prevent states from denying black people the right to vote.
15th Amendment
After Abraham Lincoln died, his vice president, ____________, became president.
Andrew Johnson
People who supported the equality of black and white citizens were influenced by the ___________.
Bible
Under the Reconstruction Act southern states had to write new ______ ___________ and the majority of voters had to approve the new constitutions, and the states had to ___________ the 14th Amendment.
States Constitutions
Ratify
The _______ was set up to provide food and clothing to freed slaves and poor white Southerners and to set up schools for black people.
Freedmans Bureau
Johnson was found not guilty during his impeachment trial by one vote in the __________.
Senate
What was true about sodbusters?
- built their houses out of sod
- used steel plows and windmills
