reconstruction Flashcards

(18 cards)

1
Q

government pardon for wrongdoings

A

amnesty

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2
Q

members of congress who wanted extreme changes after the war

A

radical republicans

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3
Q

former slaves

A

freedmen

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4
Q

laws in the south that were meant to control freedmen

A

blackcodes

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5
Q

proccess of bringing formal charges against a public official

A

impeachment

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6
Q

white southerners who supported the union

A

scalawags

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7
Q

whites travel from north to south

A

carpetbaggers

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8
Q

secret society made up of former confederates who terrorized the freedmen in south

A

ku klux klan

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9
Q

person rent land from a landowner and gets a percentage of the crops.

A

sharecropper

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10
Q

won the Presidential election in 1876

A

rutherford b. hayes

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11
Q

How does the election of 1876 lead to the end of Reconstruction?

A

hayes agrees to end reconstruction for 20 disputed electoral votes.

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12
Q

fees that had to be payed before voting

A

poll taxes

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13
Q

test to see if you can read

A

literacy test

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14
Q

kept whites away from voting

A

grandfather clauses

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15
Q

mandated segregation of public places

A

jim crown laws

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16
Q

What was decided in the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

A

blacks and whites are different but they can still be treated equal.

17
Q

punishment from an informal group

18
Q

blacks came from the south to kansas