Chapter 18 Social Studies Terms

1. the ability to not read or write
3. to eject president from office
8. a term that refers to old leather briefcases that were not durable
9. 17th US president who was impeached
10. clause This law allowed people to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before the reconstruction.
11. slavery was illegal
12. a term meaning scoundrel or worthless rascal
13. an alarm went out that African American soldiers from Fort Pickering, on the south boundary of downtown Memphis, had killed several policemen
17. the federal government had very little say on whether they could permit people on voting privelleges

2. the period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern States into the Union
4. first state to rejoin the union
5. being stripped of a privilege
6. a system where landowners rented land to farmers
7. Lincoln's assassin
14. putting to death by the illegal action of a mob
15. everyone had equal protection
16. a fee required for voting, many african americans could not afford to pay that