SS Test October 15
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- This abolished slavery in the United States:
- The 13th Amendment
- This allowed illiterate people to vote if their grandfathers had been voters:
- Grandfather Clause
- These people lived on plantations that they did not own. They were given seed, fertilizer, and tools, and in return had to give the planters part of their crop:
- Sharecroppers
- Due in large part to his agreement to end Reconstruction by removing remaining troops from the South, he won the 1876 election:
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- This former tailor was impeached by the House but was not voted out of office by the Senate:
- Andrew Johnson
- The name of the court case that overturned segregation in education:
- Brown v. Board of Education
- The group of laws that institutionalized segregation ˜ these laws began in the North in the 1840:
- Jim Crow Laws
- The most famous of the lawyers for Brown:
- Thurgood Marshall
- To bring formal charges of wrongdoing against an official:
- To Impeach
- He was the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate:
- Blanche K. Bruce
- He won the popular vote in the 1876 election, but lost the electoral vote:
- Samuel Tilden
- The northern most state for the Democrats and the northern most state for the Republicans (in that order):
- New York, Maine
- Southern whites that supported the Reconstruction governments in the South:
- Scalawags
- Northerners that moved to the South after the war, they were named after the hurry in which they threw their possessions into one of these (looks like a bag):
- Carpetbag
- These were two groups that opposed the ratification of the 15th Amendment ~ opposition mocked in this Thomas Nast cartoon:
- The Ku Klux Klan and White Leagues
- Because of this, people lost faith in the policies of the Republican Party:
- Corruption
- This stated that all persons born in the United States were citizens and that they are entitled to equal protection under the law:
- The 14th Amendment
- The Pennsylvania lawyer pictured on the right drafted the 14th Amendment and lived by the belief that all men are created equal:
- Thaddeus Stevens
- This provided that all federal officials whose appointment required Senate confirmation could not be removed without the consent of the Senate:
- The Tenure of Office Act
- This supremacist organization was suppressed by the military presence during Reconstruction, but quickly re-surfaced after 1876:
- The Ku Klux Klan
- He is the villain of April 14, 1865:
- John Wilkes Booth
- These two things prevented blacks from exercising their right to vote, a right clearly granted to them by the 15th Amendment:
- Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests
- This occurred when a sharecropper or farmer borrowed on credit and was never able to get out of debt:
- Cycle of Poverty
- His political cartoons illustrated his anger over the Democratic Party's attitude toward African Americans:
- Thomas Nast
- This former war hero won the elections of 1868 and 1872:
- Ulysses S. Grant
- This stated that segregation was legal as long as facilities for blacks and whites were "separate but equal:"
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- This is the separation of people based on race, skin color, or other ethnic difference:
- Segregation