Reconstruction

Question 0

John Wilkes Booth

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Assassinated Lincoln in 1865

Question 1

Exodusters

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Name given to African Americans that were led to Nicodemus, Kansas by Benjamin “Pap” Singleton

Question 2

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Defeated Tilden in 1876 election by 1 electoral vote, ended Reconstruction because of the Compromise of 1877

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Andrew Johnson

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Was president after Lincoln, he broke with the radicals and was impeached

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Amenesty

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A government pardon

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Black Codes

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Laws that only apply to African Americans

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Segregation

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The separation of the races

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Sharecropper

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Someone who farms for board, food, supplies, etc.

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Impeach

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First the House of Representatives accuse the president of violating a law, then the Senate votes to remove him from office (requires 2/3 votes)

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Outlawed Slavery

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Grants citizenship- “equal protection under the law”

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Fifteenth Amendment

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Cannot deny the right to vote base on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

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Grandfather Clause

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Excused voters from a literacy test if their grandfather or father had been able to vote

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Jim Crow Legislation

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Laws that separated races legally

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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A Supreme Court case- “separate but equal facilities”

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Radical Reconstruction

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A plan that prevented Southerners from regaining power and to protect the Freedmen’s freedom

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Sharecropping

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An endless cycle of debt by farming- “economic slavery”