Chapter 18 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding former confederate states
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
10%-forgiving the south
R.R.- wanted harsher punishment
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Group who helped aa with making there new life
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords theater
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes booth
What building was the location where Lincoln died?
Peterson house
Who becomes the 17th President of the United States?
Andrew Johnson
What was the significance of the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Full citizenship to people born in us except aa
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave aa men right to vote
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
served in general assembly state senate and representatives
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses s. Grant
What were carpetbaggers?
Northerners who came to the south to find wrath by bringing industry
What did the name scalawags mean?
Southerners that gave that nickname to pro Union southerners
What was the largest terrorist group in America against African-American rights?
Ku klux klan
