Reconstruction Review

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  1. 5. Former Confederate states would be readmitted to the Union if 10% of their citizens took a loyalty oath and the state agreed to ratify the 13th Amendment which outlawed slavery. Not put into effect because Lincoln was assassinated.
  2. 7. crimes and misdemeanors Circumstances under which the president can by impeached by the House and removed from office by the Senate.
  3. 10. a general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution
  4. 12. Amendment that said U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed
  5. 13. Amendment that abolished slavery
  6. 14. A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote
  7. 20. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
  8. 24. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
  9. 25. Amendment that granted citizenship to everyone born in the U.S., equal protection under the law
  10. 26. divided the South into five districts and placed them under military rule; required Southern States to ratify the 14th amendment; guaranteed freedmen the right to vote in convention to write new state constitutions
  11. 27. cancel; put an end to
  12. 29. First state to pass Black Codes
  13. 30. the belief that white people are superior to those of all other races, especially the black race, and should therefore dominate society.
  14. 31. One of the first African American Colleges, it was established in Washington D.C with the help of the Freedmen's Bureau
  15. 32. Favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms.
  16. 33. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
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  1. 1. A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office
  2. 2. A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote
  3. 3. Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs
  4. 4. agreements between freedmen laborers and planters stating terms of employment
  5. 6. enacted by radical congress - forbade president from removing civil officers without senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson from removing a radical republican from his cabinet
  6. 8. an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy
  7. 9. a solemn promise
  8. 11. Majority of white men must swear oath of loyalty, new government must ban slavery and ratify 13th Amendment, Confederate officials may vote and hold office
  9. 15. A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867.
  10. 16. Birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan
  11. 17. result of Stanton's dismissal by the President, this was the last straw for the House Republicans. Johnson was just barely acquitted. As a result for the rest of his term he was powerless to alter the course of Reconstruction and the country.
  12. 18. A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
  13. 19. the majority required in the senate to remove a public official from office
  14. 21. A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
  15. 22. Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
  16. 23. President of the United States at the start of Reconstruction - took over after Lincoln's was assassinated
  17. 28. A derogatory term for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War.