RECONSTRUCTION REVIEW SHEET

Small group of congressional leaders who wanted to destroy the power of former slaveholders and help African Americans to gain equality.

Agency which provided food, clothing, hospitals' legal protection and education for freed slaves

Amendment which ended slavery.

Leader of Radical Republicans in the Senate.

First president to be impeached.

Led Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Former Union General who was elected president in 1868

First African American to serve in the Senate .

Amendment which defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection of the laws

White southerners who joined the Republican Party

Northerners who moved South after the Civil War

Which political party did African Americans support after the Civil War?

Which political party did former Confederate leaders and planters support

Laws passed by Congress to place the 10 unreconstructed Southern states under militarty control

Terrorist group which wanted to end Reconstruction and stop African Americans from exercising their natural rights.

Amendment which gave African American Males right to vote

Laws passed by Congress to end KKK violence

Law which pardoned former Confederates and gave them back their political power.

Economic arrangement which returned african american to cotton farming .

what year did reconstruction end ?

Name for Souther state governments dominated by former Confederate leaders after Reconstruction ended.

Republican candidate for president in 1876

Democratic candidate?

Who won ? Why?