A | B |
freedmen | former slaves |
Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's Reconstruction ideas |
Freedmen's Bureau | organization designed to help the newly free slaves get a new start |
literacy test | required voters to prove they could read before they could vote |
Wade-Davis bill | proposed that 50% of former confederates had to pledge an oath of loyalty before being readmitted to the Union |
Reconstruction | period of rebuilding the nation following the Civil War |
carpetbagger | Northerner who went to the South after the war seeking profit |
Plessy v. Ferguson | said segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal |
poll tax | resulted in people having to pay a fee to vote |
Jim Crow Laws | laws that enforced segregation |
scalawag | Southerner who supported Reconstruction governments |
15th amendment | gave all males, including black, the right to vote |
black codes | southern laws designed to limit the rights of blacks |
Johnson's Reconstruction ideas | required southern states to denounce secession, pay debts, and ratify the 13th amendment |
sharecropper | farmer who works land owned by another and gives the landowner part of the harvest |
grandfather clause | allows whites to vote who could not pass a literacy test or pay a poll tax |
Radical Republican Reconstruction ideas | divided states into districts, and required them to ratify 14th and 15th amendments |
14th amendment | said that any person who was born in the U.S. was a U.S. citizen |