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| Civil War | The _____________________ was a war in the U.S. between northern and southern states over slavery and leaving the union. |
| Southern Conditions | The _____________________ after the Civil War, faced: debt, poverty, destroyed cities and farms, and no economy. |
| Punish vs. Forgiven | ______________________was a big southern state question during Reconstruction. |
| president and congress | _______________________ was another big question during Reconstruction was “should the President or Congress control Reconstruction?” |
| Freedmen | _______________________ were the ex-southern slaves who the northerners were trying to keep free |
| 10% Plan | _________________________ Lincoln’s plan for reconstructing the south. It called for having only 10% of the southern people take a loyalty oath for that state to reenter the union. |
| Abraham Lincoln | ______________________was killed before he could finish his 10% plan. |
| Andrew Johnson | _________________________ was the president after Lincoln who tried to follow his 10% plan. It did not work. |
| 13th Amendment | ______________________was added to the Constitution to make slavery illegal. |
| Former Confederates | ______________________ under Lincoln and Johnson’s 10% plan, many Confederate leaders were elected to Congress. |
| Black Codes | _________________ were laws that tried to make freedmen slaves again. |
| 14th Amendment | _____________________was added to the Constitution to create a definition of citizenship, due process, and the equal rights amendment. |
| Radical Reconstruction | _______________________ divided the south into military districts under military law. The majority of people had to take a loyalty oath. Congress runs Reconstruction. |
| Impeachment | _____________ Congress tried to remove President Johnson from office. |
| Grant | _____________________ was a war hero and later became a president during Reconstruction. |
| 15th Amendment | __________________ allowed all males to vote regardless of race, creed, and color. |
| Women Suffrage | __________________did not like the 15th Amendment because it did not give them the right to vote. |
| Freedmen | The ____________________ was a government program to help freedmen get food, clothing and shelter. |
| Carpet Baggers | ______________________This described northerners who traveled south to help with Reconstruction. Is anyone who moves for personal gain. |
| Scallywags | ________________ was any southerner who helped with reconstruction. |
| KKK | ____________ is a group who used violence to stop southern reconstruction. |
| Election of 1876 | Presidential Election that ended in a tie. Congress was split between Republican and Democrats. |
| Compromise of 1877 | was created to allow Hayes to become President and end southern Reconstruction. |
| Share Cropping | _____________ is where southern land owners and freedmen worked to produce cotton by sharing the profit. |
| Jim Crow Laws | like black codes, they limited freedmen’s rights and economic powers. |
| Segregation | was a Jim Crow Laws that separated blacks and whites in all public places. |
| Plessey vs. Ferguson | was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that made segregation legal by establishing a policy of separate but equal. |
