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| Question | Answer |
| Name given to Lincoln's plan which called for minimal loyalty from citizens in the Southern States. | 10% Plan |
| Process of bringing charges against the President | Impeachement |
| Required the majority of a state's white male citizens to pledge loyalty before elections could be held | Wade-Davis Bill |
| Abolished slavery once and for all | 13th Amendment |
| Organization responsible to provide food, clothing, hospitals, and schools for freedmen & their families. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Presidential power to prevent a bill passed in the last 10 days of session from becoming law by ignoring it. | Pocket Veto |
| Official pardon issued by the president to those in the South who pledged loyalty to the Union. | Proclamation of Amnesty |
| Name given to the Supreme leader of the Ku Klux Klan | Grand Wizard |
| Qualifications to be a member of the KKK | 1. White Protestants 2. Had to be 16 years or older |
| At one point he served as the supreme leader of the KKK; he was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989. | David Duke |
| 2 other groups that were targeted by the KKK | 1. Roman Catholics 2. Jews |
| Object burned by the KKK in many people's front yards | Crosses |
| Confederate officer who founded the KKK | Nathan Bedford Forrest |
| Different ways the KKK harmed their victims | - Lynching - Hanging |
| Laws Designed to keep freedmen in slave-like conditions | The Black Codes |
| Guaranteed all citizens, regardless of race, the right to vote. | 15th Amendment |
| Secret society of whites that used terror & violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights | KKK |
| Political group that favored much tougher requirements for restoring Southern state governments | Radical Republicans |
| Required states to grant citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US | 14th Amendment |
| Divided the South into 5 military districts under the control of the US army | Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
| Gave African Americans citizenship & equal benefits of all laws & for the security of property | Civil Rights Act |
| Labor system where freedmen worked for a portion of the crop | Sharecropping |
| A scoundrel & traitor to the South | Scalawag |
| Confederate general who was considered to be a traitor because he supported Reconstruction | James Longstreet |
| System where farmers rented the land they farmed hoping to save enough money to one day purchase their own property | Tenant farming |
| African American who took the Senate seat of Jefferson Davis | Hiram Revels |
| Northern Republicans who came South to participate in Reconstruction | Carpetbaggers |
| Set aside 45 million acres of government to be given to freedmen | Southern Homestead Act |
| Actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
| President who issued the Proclamation of Amnesty as part of his reconstruction plan | Abe Lincoln |
| Union general elected president in 1868 & 1872. He died of throat cancer a few years. | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Radical Republican who insisted that the South be treated like a conquered territory | Thaddeus Stevens |
| Became the president after Lincoln's assassination | Andrew Johnson |
| He won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote in the controversial election of 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden |
| Former slave who served as a close advisor to President Johnson during the Reconstruction of the South | Fredrick Douglas |
| Southern Democrats who won their states back from the Republicans | Redeemers |
| Group who broke from their political party and helped the Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives in 1874 | Liberal Republicans |
| Term that referred to the trend that the South remained Democratic for nearly 100 years after reconstruction | Solid South |
| Set heavy penalties on anyone attempting to prohibit civil rights in the South; also ban the use of disguises in the South | Enforcement Acts |
| He won the controversial presidential election of 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from South in exchange for Hayes becoming president | Compromise of 1877 |
| The late 1800s & early 1900s was a time of industrialization & economic change in the South called this | New South |
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