The Civil War & Reconstruction

The right for African Americans to enlist in the army

Abolished slavery in the United States

The right to vote for or against slavery

The right for African Americans to become citizens

General who captured two Confederate forts

A Democratic Senate

President of the Confederacy

A conductor for the Underground Railroad

Author of Uncle Tom´s Cabin

The withdrawal of federal troops from the South

To stop violence against African Americans

Allowed anyone to enlist in the army

The right for citizens to choose to impeach a president

State needs to abolish slavery before being readmitted

Shift control of Reconstruction from executive branch to the legislature

Original plan to rebuild the nation and readmit Southern states to the nation

States are required to approve the Fourteenth Amendment to be readmitted

Banned states from denying African Americans right to vote

Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

African American Citizenship

Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South

Landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in exchange for a portion of their crops

Northerners who moved to the South after the war

White Southerners who joined the Republican Party

White southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting

Republicans who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders