Post Civil War America HIST 1302

Specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.

• Oath of Allegiance
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Ten Percent Plan
• Black Codes

Laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.

• Oath of Allegiance
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Tenure of Office Act
• Black Codes

Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendmentsto the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War. The amendments were important in implementing the Reconstructionof the American South after the war.

• Oath of Allegiance
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Tenure of Office Act
• Black Codes

A promise to be faithful to a body, organization or country

• Oath of Allegiance
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Tenure of Office Act
• Black Codes

A United States federal law that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate. 

• Oath of Allegiance
• Reconstruction Amendments
• Tenure of Office Act
• Black Codes

an agency of the War Department set up in 1865to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs,fair treatment, and education.

• Freedman's Bureau
• Bureau of Slave Affairs
• National Association for The Advancement of Colored People
• Association of Civil Rights for Former SLaves

A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

• Scalawag
• Carpetbagger
• Opportunist
• Yankee

A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.

• Scalawag
• Carpetbagger
• Opportunist
• Yankee

Essentially, this turned the South into a conquered military state, which mainly divided the South into five regions, each governed by a Union general. 

• Ten Percent Plan
• Reconstruction Acts
• Oath of Allegiance
• Tenure of Office Act

A secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups.
Formed first in the days of Reconstruction, it was reborn in the Early Twentieth Century.

• Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
• Knights of Pithias
• The Odd Fellows
• The Society of the Circle