Civil War Reconstruction

Southern state laws that established "virtual slavery" for freedmen there

Confederate leaders eligible for political office only after 2/3 Congress Vote

Northern politicians who demanded full civil rights for freed slaves

Before his death, Lincoln urged Congress to pass this to eliminate US slavery

A white southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War

An official forgiveness for a crime

Federal program to repair damage in the South

Southern war debts now void, not to be repaid

Said that the value of freed slaves would not be paid to former owners

Established to help freed slaves with education, money, and food

Made slavery illegal in the US and all its territories

Citizens can vote no matter race, color, or "previous condition of servitude"

To charge an elected official with wrongdoing in office

Northern Republican who moved South, an insulting name

Using this, Lincoln stopped the Wade-Davis Act from becoming a law