Vocab quiz 2 Flashcards
Abraham Lincoln
President of the north during the civil war
Amnesty
A group pardon
Freedman
Enslaved people who have been freed by the war
John Wilkes booth
Man who assassinated Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Took role as president after Lincoln’s death
Black codes
New laws used by southern states to control African Americans
Hiram revels
an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and college administrator.
Blanche Bruce
an American politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881
Carpetbagger
A name given by southerners to northern Whites, who went south to start businesses or pursue political office
Impeachment
The bringing a formal charges against the public official
Literacy test
A test to see if a person can read and write
Poll tax
Personal tax to be paid before voting
Grandfather clause
It was a provision that allowed a voter to avoid all literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote January 1, 1867
Homer plessy
An American shoemaker
Scalawags
By their opponents were southerner whites who had opposed secession
