AMH 2020 Pt. 1
Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Union General Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate President Jefferson Davis
Wilmer McLean Appomattox Courthouse
16th president of U.S. (1861-1865)
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated at Fords Theater
John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Lincoln at Fords Theater
A conspirator with John Wilkes Booth; attempted to
assassinate United States Secretary of State William
Lewis Powell H. Seward; was later hanged
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the
Black Codes newly freed black slaves
13th Amendment abolished slavery
1) Citizenship for African Americans, 2) Repeal of 3/5
Compromise, 3) Denial of former confederate officials
14th Amendment from holding national or state office, 4) Repudiate
(reject) confederate debts
15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote
1866 - enacted by radical congress - forbade
president from removing civil officers without
Tenure of Office Act senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson from
removing a radical republican from his cabinet
Divide confederate states, except Tennessee, into five
Congressional/ Radical military districts. Commanded under former union
Reconstruction generals
A secret society of white Southerners in the United
States against blacks. First organized terror
KKK movement in America
A derogatory term for Southerners who were working
with the North to buy up land from desperate
Scalawags Southerners. White southerners who supported
reconstruction
1
Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Union General Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate President Jefferson Davis
Wilmer McLean Appomattox Courthouse
16th president of U.S. (1861-1865)
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated at Fords Theater
John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Lincoln at Fords Theater
A conspirator with John Wilkes Booth; attempted to
assassinate United States Secretary of State William
Lewis Powell H. Seward; was later hanged
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the
Black Codes newly freed black slaves
13th Amendment abolished slavery
1) Citizenship for African Americans, 2) Repeal of 3/5
Compromise, 3) Denial of former confederate officials
14th Amendment from holding national or state office, 4) Repudiate
(reject) confederate debts
15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote
1866 - enacted by radical congress - forbade
president from removing civil officers without
Tenure of Office Act senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson from
removing a radical republican from his cabinet
Divide confederate states, except Tennessee, into five
Congressional/ Radical military districts. Commanded under former union
Reconstruction generals
A secret society of white Southerners in the United
States against blacks. First organized terror
KKK movement in America
A derogatory term for Southerners who were working
with the North to buy up land from desperate
Scalawags Southerners. White southerners who supported
reconstruction
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