CAp exam vocab Questions and Answers(RATED A+)

Abraham Lincoln - ANSWER-President of the United States during the Civil War and assassinated in 1865 13th Amendment - ANSWER-This Amendment abolished slavery 14th Amendment - ANSWER-This Amendment allowed black citizenship 15th Amendment - ANSWER-This Amendment gave voting rights to black males Impeachment - ANSWER-method used to remove an elected official from office before their terms expired ku kluk klan - ANSWER-Following the civil war, this group attempted to return white authority throughout the South through violence and terror Andrew Jackson - ANSWER-president following the Civil War who acquitted on impeachment charged in 1868 Black code - ANSWER-A series of state laws designed to limit the civil rights of newly freed slaves. Ulyssess Grant - ANSWER-Former civil war general who served as president in every corrupt administration