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This man was the 17th president of the United States. He was a democrat serving from 1865 to 1869, described as being a prideful self-made man.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
In 1862, this act promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States. The government provided land grants to railroad companies and issued government bonds for financing.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
The last legislative act of Reconstruction was passed in this year.
What was 1867?
This was the name given to ex-slaves.
What is Freedmen?
This man was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This man was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, politician, and a graduate of West Point. He served with distinction during the Mexican War, and later commanded the union army. Although, he has been described as being too meticulous in his plans.
Who was George B. McClellan?
In 1862, this Act opened up public-domain lands for family farms (not plantations) at no cost. The government also sponsored agricultural training programs during this period, through the newly established Department of Agriculture and the Morrill Land Grant College Act.
What is the Homestead Act?
What is the May Proclamation?
These were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South. All were enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This man was the Vice President of the Confederacy.
Who is Alexander H. Stephens?
This person was a commander of the Confederate States Army who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
In 1886, this law read, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was Congress' plan for Reconstruction in 1864 that declared that the Reconstruction of the South was a legislative, not executive, matter. It required 50% of voters of the 1860 election to undertake an "iron clad" oath.
What is the Wade Davis Bill?
This was ratified in 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was the legislative body of the Confederate States of America, which existed between 1861 and 1865 during the American Civil War.
What is the Confederate Congress?
This man was an American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This act authorized Union seizure of rebel property, and it stated that all slaves who fought with or worked for the Confederate military services were freed of further obligations to their masters.
What is the Confiscation Act of 1861?
This laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The Fourteenth Amendment provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment granted black men the right to vote.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
These were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
What are Black Codes?
This was the place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. Union forces ended up surrendering, but, miraculously, no one was killed.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was an American politician, soldier, international statesman, and author. During the American Civil War he led the Union Army as its commanding general to victory over the Confederacy. He would later served as the 18th president of the United States.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This act stated that all slaves with masters that aided the rebellion would be considered free, and were encouraged to run away from their masters.
What is the Confiscation Act of 1862?
This conciliatory plan for reunification of the U.S. required only 10% of the 1860 voters to undertake a loyalty oath in order to be readmitted into the union. (After congress approves their new state constitution).
What is the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction?
This was the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union Army under Ulysses S, Grant in 1865.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
This battle was fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac. The battle ended in a tie, but it's all Lincoln needed to begin implementing the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?