10% of a state’s population swore an oath to the United States, the voters could organize a new State Government.

to grant forgiveness - Refers to Lincoln’s plan for Confederate Soldiers who took an oath to the Union.

Passed by Congress - strict plan for Reconstruction. Required 50% of the states' voters to sign a loyalty oath before the state could return to the United States. Never signed into law by Abraham Lincoln.

enslaved men and women who had been freed with the end of the Civil War

Confederate sympathizer who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

vice-president and successor to Abraham Lincoln

ended slavery in the United States

gave citizenship to African Americans

granted African Americans the Right to Vote

Granted citizenship rights to African Americans, that they would be protected under a Constitutional Amendment

time period following the Civil War when Radical Republicans controlled the Congress and wanted to punish the South...

divided the south into 5 military districts controlled by Union Soldiers, to protect the rights of freedman. Confederate leaders were not allowed to serve public office or vote.

white Southerners who collaborated with Northern forces during Reconstruction, for personal gain - had opposed secession

northern whites who went south for personal political or economic gain

Congressmen from the North who wanted to make it difficult for the Southern states to rejoin the Union

to bring formal charges against a public official such as the President for treason or other high crimes against the state.

laws passed in the southern states to deny freedman rights

to separate people, especially the races

A secret group aimed at scaring African Americans to keep them powerless, often included violence

Workers rent land to farm and in return gives the landowner a share of the crop

a tax to be paid before voting, designed to restrict African Americans voting rights in the south

1876 Elected President, and agreed to remove all federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction

1896 Supreme Court case established the “separate but equal” principle, continuing racial segregation