To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office.

This act granted full citizenship to African Americans and gave the federal government the power to intervene in state affairs to protect their rights.

This man's plan for rebuilding the Union, called "Restoration," included the pardoning of high-ranking Confederate officials only by appealing to the President.

This Amendment prohibited any state from denying an individual the right to vote because of race.

This plan for Reconstruction gave responsibility to the States because only 10% of the voting population had to take an oath of loyalty in order to rejoin the Union.

The granting of pardon to a large number of persons; protection from prosecution for an illegal act.

This Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal as long as African Americans had access to public places equal to those of whites.

This group of people helped African Americans adjust to freedom, giving them clothes, food, medical services, and education.

In order to keep former slaves from voting, Southern states imposed this,restriction, in which they had to read and explain difficult parts of state constitution.

This Congressional group passed the Wade-Davis Bill, and wanted to "punish" the South for their actions in the Civil War.

A system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop.

This pair of acts called for the creation of new governments in the 10 Southern states that had not ratified the 14th Amendment.

This Secretary of War was removed from President Johnson's cabinet, leading to a breech in the Tenure of Office Act.

This exception allowed people who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers voted before Reconstruction.

The outcome of this election, between Rutherford B. Hayes (R) and Samuel Tilden (D), was in doubt because four states had disputed returns.

Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers.

This Amendment to the Constitution granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States, except Native Americans.

This former governor of Ohio won the Presidency after a dispute in the election results.

This is the slang name for laws in the South that required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place.

President Hayes signed this agreement, which promised to pull Union soldiers out of Southern governments so that the South could learn to support itself.

A tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote.

This act prohibited the President from removing government officials, including members of his own cabinet, without the Senate's approval.

These people moved from the North to the South in order to support Republican Reconstruction; their nickname comes from the cheap suitcases they carried when they arrived.

This hate group, begun during Reconstruction, was responsible for terrorizing and lynching many African Americans because they did not behave as white Southerners thought they should behave.

Despite Reconstruction efforts, this remained the South's main economic activity.