Vocab 11-17 Practice

This secured the rights of freedmen., it gave citizenship to African- Americans

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

Vetoed by Johnson, Radical Republicans tried to remove Southern governments who refused to support freedmen's citizenship and put the military in the South.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

Southern whites who supported Republican's through Reconstruction & wanted them to help rebuild the South.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

Northern whites who moved to the South and served as Republican leaders during Reconstruction & started businesses.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

Civil War general & 18th President of the United States; elected with a majority freedmen votes.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• 15th Amendment

• Ku Klux Klan

• Andrew Johnson

founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• 15th Amendment

• Ku Klux Klan

• Andrew Johnson

States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race

• Ulysses S. Grant

• 15th Amendment

• Ku Klux Klan

• Andrew Johnson