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Reconstruction
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction | 10% of state had to promise allegiance to US |
| 15th Amendment | Gave African American males the right to vote |
| 14th Amendment | Made all African Americans citizens |
| 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery |
| Freedman's Bureau | Established to help over 4 million slaves & poor whites after the Civil War |
| Reconstruction | Rebuilding of the country following the Civil War |
| Assassination | Murder of a government official or political leader |
| Segregation | Separation of people based on race |
| Black Codes | Laws that denied African Americans many civil rights |
| Impeachment | Bringing of charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives |
| Sharecropping | A system of farming in which farmers rent land and pay the landowner with a portion of the crops raised |
| Carpetbagger | Northerner who moved South during Reconstruction seeking to make a profit |
| Scalawag | Native white Southerner who worked with the military during Reconstruction for personal gain ($) |
| African Americans Plan for Reconstruction | Wanted to consolidate, or bring together, their families |
| Southerners Plan for Reconstruction | Passed laws known as Black Codes, used violence & threats to intimidate former slaves |
| Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction | Required Southerners who owned large amounts of property to ask for Presidential pardon |
| Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction | Ratify the 13th Amendment, form new state government, & elect representatives to Congress |
| African Americans Plan for Reconstruction | Wanted to establish a network of churches & other self-controlled institutions |
| Southerners Plan for Reconstruction | Elected former Confederates to Congress |
| Congress' Plan for Reconstruction | Refused to allow former Confederates elected as officials to take their seats in Congress |
| Congress' Plan for Reconstruction | Passed the 14th Amendment recognizing citizenship of African Americans |
| Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction | Humiliate the Southern elite |
| Discrimination | Mistreatment based on race, religion, gender, or age |