Reconstruction Test Review

Term for rebuilding of the South from 1865-1877

• Reformation

• Reconstruction

• Rebuilding

• Rebirth

Offered amnesty, or official pardon, to southerners. Southerners had to swear allegiance to the Union and agree that slavery was illegal. New state governments could be formed once 10 percent of voters had made these pledges. Lincoln wanted to restore order quickly.

• Sherman's Revenge Plan

• Southern Reform Plan

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• 10% Plan

Abolished Slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 3rd Amendment

These forced African Americans to sign annual labor contracts or they could be put in prison as "vagrants." Also forbid them from being able to assemble in large groups or own weapons.

• Reconstruction Laws

• Slave Codes

• Black Codes

• Freedmen Laws

Site of Lincoln's Assassination

• Ford's Theater

• White House

• Vicksburg

• New York City

Created to help guide recently freed slaves to self-support, and to protect their rights

• Black Codes

• Lincoln Association

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Amnesty International

Any of the laws legalizing racial segregation of blacks and whites that were enacted in Southern states beginning in the 1880s and enforced through the 1950's

• Segregation Laws

• Black Codes

• Hayes Code

• Jim Crow Laws

Former Union General who became president after Andrew Johnson

• William T. Sherman

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• Phillip Sheridan

The accusation of a government official of wrongdoing. According to the United States Constitution, the House of Representatives can vote to impeach an official, but the Senate actually tries the case.

• Felony

• Accusation

• Censure

• Impeachment

All men who are Citizens can vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment