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# Social Studies 6
#Social Studies 6 Module 2 A Changing Nation Lesson 1 Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union following the Civil War |
| Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan which required that 10 percent of voters in a state pledge loyalty to the Union before that state could rejoin the Union |
| Thirteenth Amendment | The amendment that made slavery illegal throught the United States |
| Freedmen's Bureau | An organization established by Congress to provide relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South |
| Andrew Johnson | Vice President who became president upon Lincoln's death |
| The Wade-Davis Bill | Required that a state must ban slavery before the state could be admitted to the Union |
| Amnesty | Official pardon |
| Black Codes | Southern laws that greatly limited freedom of African Americans |
| Radical Republicans | Republicans who wanted more federal control in Reconstruction |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Act giving African Americans the same legal rights as whites |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Amendment guaranteeing citizens equal protection of laws and all people born in the U.S., except Indians as citizens |
| Reconstruction Acts | Laws passed to protect African Americans rights |
| Impeachment | Process of bringing charges of wrong doing against a public official |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Amendment giving African American men the right to vote |
| Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce | First African American Senators elected to the Federal Senate |
| Ku Klux Klan | Secret society that uses violence to oppress African Americans |
| Enforcement Acts | Laws providing equal protection for all under the law |
| Compromise of 1877 | Agreement in which Democrats accepted Hayes's election to the presidency in exchange for removing federal troops from the South |
| Poll Tax | A special tax people had to pay so they could vote |
| Segregation | Forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that enforce segregation |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court ruling that upheld segregation if "separate-but-equal" facilities were provided |
| Sharecropping | System in which farm labors kept, or shared, some of the crop |
| Booker T. Washington | Started Tuskegee Institute and believed education was a key to help people |
| What important action taken by the federal government in 1877? | All federal troops were pulled out of the Southern States |
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