After the Civil War
Approximately _____________ people killed in the Civil War
625,000
Time after Civil War was called _______________
Reconstruction
Reconstruction means
Building again
President that made plans to bring the country back together
President Lincoln
What happened to President Lincoln
He was assassinated
One part of the Reconstruction Plan required each of the Confederate States to repeal the _______________ in order to be readmitted back into the Union.
Ordinance of Secession
President Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 by _______________.
John Wilkes Booth
After the war, former slaves were called ______________.
Freedmen
The ______________________ was a government group established to help freed slaves.
Freedmen's Bureau
____________ became resident after Lincoln was assassinated.
Andrew Johnson
________________ who was against secession before the ware became governor of Alabama from 1874-1878 and led them out of Reconstruction
George Houston
___________________ was a former slave who entered first grade at age 33 and became a teacher.
Maria Fearing
During Reconstruction, the southern states were placed under military rule to _______________________________.
To require states to have blacks and whites work together in writing the new constitution
The 14th Amendment ___________________.
Gave Freedmen full rights as citizens
________________ led to the readmission of Alabama to the United States
The Constitution of 1868
Three black men served in the U. S. ______________ during Reconstrction.
House of Representatives.
_______________ was the first African-American elected to the U.S.House of Representatives from Alabama.
Benjamin S. Turner
_______________ came from the north carrying suitcases made of carpet-like cloth.
Carpetbaggers
__________________ were white Southerners who worked with the military government to make sure the Alabama sgtate government was run as it should be.
Scalawags
the Ku Klux Klan _____________________________________.
Used fear and violence to intimidate people.