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Reconstruction C.W

Vocab and people

QuestionAnswer
Amnesty A group pardon
Freedmen Enslaved people who had been freed by the war.
John Wilkes Booth A Confederate sympathizer who shot and killed President Lincoln.
President Lincoln The President during the civil war; the first president to be assassinated in American history.
Andrew Johnson The president after Lincoln; proposed a lenient plan of Reconstruction.
Black Codes New laws used by southern states to control African Americans.
Scalawags Southern whites who had opposed seceding from the Union.
Carpetbaggers Northern whites that came south to start business or pursue politics after the Civil War.
Impeachment The bringing of formal charges against a public official.
Reconstruction Steps taken to restore the southern states to the Union and rebuild the South.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) A secret, racist organization spread across the South.
Poll tax A personal tax to be paid before voting.
Literacy test A test to see if a person could read or write; You had to pass to vote.
Grandfather clause A provision that allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867.
Segregation Enforced separations of races.
Sharecropper A laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop.
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