Chapter 16 VIP's Reconstruction and the New South

Abraham Lincoln

Ten Percent Plan, President, amnesty

John Wilkes Booth

killed Lincoln, confederate, shot two weeks later, in barn and set on fire

Freedman

freed slaves

Andrew Johnson

proposed lenient of reconstruction, followed Lincoln by putting in his place without consulting legislators, allowed southern states to organize new governments and representivie, each state needed to abolish slavery, vice of lincoln, pres after lincoln, followed up with lincolns recontruction

Hiram Revels

first black senator,

Blanche Bruce

first AA senator to serve full term

scalawags

by their opponents were southern white who opposed secession

carpetbaggers

a name given by southerners to northern whites who went south to start a businesses or pursue political office

Homer Plessy

aressted for white only in the case of of plessy an Ferguson the court ruled in favor of Louisianna

sharecropper

is a laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it for exchange of the value of the crop