TMS Chapter 12 Reconstruction and the New South
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| a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense | ||
| enslaved people who had been freed by the war | ||
| was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. | ||
| 17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president. | ||
| Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves | ||
| white southerner who supported the Republicans during reconstruction | ||
| Northerner who traveled south to make money off of the Reconstruction | ||
| charges against a president approved by a majority of the house of representatives | ||
| tax required before a person can vote | ||
| A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote | ||
| A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867 | ||
| a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups | ||
| man who challenged the Louisiana law requiring blacks to ride in a separate car on trains | ||
| Person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop |