Reconstruction Flashcards
John Wilkes Booth
Assinated Lincoln
Exodusters
Name given to African-Americans that Benjamin “Pap” Singleton led to Kansas
Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican that won the electoral vote by 1 vote
Became President
Ended Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
President after Lincoln
Disagreeable
Congress impeached him but escaped removal by 1 vote
Amnesty
Government pardon for former Confederate officials
Black Codes
Laws that only apply to African Americans
Segregation
Laws that separated the races
Sharecropper
The renter promises a portion of their crop to pay for rent, farm, supplies, housing, etc.
Get locked in a cycle of debt and poverty
Impeach
The House of Republicans formally accuses the President or any elected official of violating the law
Thirteenth Amendment
Ended and outlawed slavery
Fourteenth Amendment
Granted equal protection under the law
Overturned Black Codes
Fifteenth Amendment
States cannot deny the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Grandfather Clause
Excused a voter from the literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote
Jim Crow Legislation
Laws that segregated the races
Plessy V. Ferguson
A Supreme Court Case that said separate facilities are legal if they are equal
Provided Constitutional protection for segregation
Radical Reconstruction
Radical plan of Reconstruction
Goal was to prevent Southerners from regaining power and to protect the freedmen
Sharecropping
A cycle of debt
Renter promises a portion of his crop to pay for rent, housing, farm supplies, etc.
A cycle of poverty
