Reconstruction Study Guide

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  1. 6. Name for the group in Congress who wanted strict measures imposed on former Confederate states
  2. 8. Redeemer governments introduced this separation of whites and African Americans in public places.
  3. 11. Johnson angered Radical Republicans when he granted thousands of these to wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials
  4. 12. Redeemers established this tax to deny the vote to African Americans
  5. 15. This Vice-President became President when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
  6. 16. Term for Democrats who worked to get rid of Reconstruction reforms after 1877
  7. 18. In 1870 this amendment gave African American men the right to vote
  8. 21. President Johnson survived removal from office by this many votes in the Senate.
  9. 23. This agency was established by Congress in 1865 to provide relief for former slaves
  10. 25. Congress proposed this much stricter plan than the one proposed by Lincoln
  11. 27. Sixteen African Americans were elected to this lawmaking body during Reconstruction
  12. 28. This 1865 amendment to the constitution made slavery illegal.
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  1. 1. Congress voted to do this to the President when he removed a cabinet official without the consent of the Senate
  2. 2. This is what southerners called northerners who came to the south after the Civil War.
  3. 3. This is what southerners called white southern Republicans after the Civil War
  4. 4. This secret society was formed in 1866 to oppose civil rights for African Americans
  5. 5. These laws in the south after Reconstruction enforced segregation.
  6. 7. Radical Republicans were outraged that Johnson’s plan for reconstruction was resulting in the denial of these for African Americans
  7. 9. The newly formed governments of the southern states began to pass these laws that denied civil rights to former slaves
  8. 10. Lasting from 1865 to 1877, this was the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union
  9. 11. This 1896 Supreme Court decision ruled that segregation was constitutional
  10. 13. The Fourteenth Amendment granted this to all people born in the United States
  11. 14. This 1868 amendment outlawed states violating the civil rights of American citizens.
  12. 17. In 1867 the Congress passed Reconstruction Acts that put southern states under this kind of control
  13. 19. The election of this man in 1876 led to the removal of all federal troops from the south
  14. 20. Johnson set up a program for each southern state to establish these
  15. 22. President Johnson opposed laws that gave this kind of treatment to African Americans
  16. 24. President Lincoln proposed this plan that offered amnesty to southerners
  17. 26. This Republican and former Civil War general became president in 1869