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Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Time period when the South was rebuild after the Civil War | Reconstruction |
| The new class of people following the Civil War were called? (Almost 4 million) | Freedman |
| A Southern State could form a new government as long as 10 percent of their voters took a loyalty oath. | 10% plan |
| A government pardon | amnesty |
| A plan for reconstruction that took a majority of southern colony | Wade Davis Bill |
| Provided food, clothing and medical care for Confederates | Freeman's Bureau |
| Civil Ware general who became President | U. S. Grant |
| Person who didn't want much to change after the Civil War | Conservative |
| Amendment added to have African Americans the right to vote | 15th Ammendment |
| Southern republican that sided with the Union | Scalawag |
| What building houses the Congress | Capitol |
| New laws created to deny newly freed black from gaining freedom | Black Codes |
| Voters had to prove they could read | literacy test |
| Amendment for equal protection under the law | 14th Amendment |
| Person second in line to president | Speaker of the House |
| Laws that separated blacks and whites before legal separation | Jim Crow Laws |
| Congress can override a vote with this fraction | 2/3 |
| Presidents power to override | veto |
| Who was president after Abe Lincoln | Andrew Johnson |
| Northerner who came to the South to profit off the South after the Civil War | Carpetbagger |
| Group of Southerners who terrorized the blacks | KKK |
| Amendment added to Free the Slaves | 13th Amendment |
| Farmed land and and profited from the crops | Sharecropping |