Reconstruction Facts
Reconstruction Started in this year
1865
With this type of reconstruction, the south would remain in power.
Presidential Reconstruction (Johnson)
Gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of skin color (except native americans)
15th
Famously signed the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th amendment into law
Abraham Lincoln
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Rebuild/Reunify
Derisive names given to people who helped with Reconstruction (Name Both)
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
With this type of reconstruction, the U.S would send the army down to the south and separate the south into 5 military districts to protect the rights of the newly freedmen
Radical Reconstruction
Gave former slaves citizenship
14th
Was Lincoln's VP in the Election of 1864. President from 1865 to 1868. Was a southern Democrat that was impeached by congress.
Andrew Johnson
Farmers were held to the land they worked by debt and usually kept in a cycle of poverty
Sharecropping
Name of discriminatory laws passed by southern leaders to take rights away from african americans
Black Codes. Or Jim Crow laws.
What help did the Freedman's bureau provide
Built schools and hospitals, gave food, clothes and shelter for poor people. Provided legal protection and lawyers for formerly enslaved people. Most importantly educated thousands of poor people in the south.
Under this type of reconstruction, African American men would receive the right to vote, hold political office, citizenship and equal rights
Radical Reconstruction
Outlawed Slavery
13th
Ulysses S Grant
How/why did reconstruction end?
The corrupt election of 1876 and the compromise of 1877 that gave Hayes the presidency in exchange for ending reconstruction.
How did the supreme court make reconstruction worse?
They kept ruling that the laws passed by congress in reconstruction were unconstitutional or very limited. They took away the power of the federal government to protect people from discrimination.
What were the pros and cons of Grants presidency?
Pros: the 15th amendment, he sent the army down to the south to get rid of the KKK and defeated them, the freedmen's bureau continued to help people in the south, Many african americans were able to vote and be a part of the government.
Cons: His cabinet was extremely corrupt and the american people lost trust in the government, people wanted to stop reconstruction because they thought the government was doing a bad job and wasting money
Under this Reconstruction, after 10 percent of voters swore loyalty, states could rejoin
Lincoln's Reconstruction (10 Percent Plan)
Assured all citizens would receive "Due Process" and equal protection under the law including African Americans
14th
President from 1880 to 1881 who fought against corruption and the spoils system but was assassinated by a crazy guy looking for a political appointment
James Garfield.
What was the Lost Cause
Propaganda to convince people that the Confederacy were the good guys and reconstruction was evil and bad.
Group that wore white hoods and terrorized African Americans during and after Reconstruction
KKK
This worldwide great depression hit during reconstruction severely limiting the governments power and the peoples will to continue helping the south
The Panic of 1873
Name 5 problems the U.S faced during reconstruction
what to do with all the disabled and dead soldiers, how to rebuild the south's infrastructure, what to do with the 4 million formally enslaved people, how to come back together peacefully with not too little or too much punishment for the south, how to give and enforce rights for formally enslaved people, what to do with the former confederate leaders, the assassination of abe lincoln, the KKK, corruption in the government etc...
Said any duties not explicitly given to the federal government in the constitution was left up to the states. Basically the states rights amendment
10th
Removed Troops from the South in the Compromise of 1877 essentially ending reconstruction
Rutherford B Hayes
What long term effects came from Reconstruction. Name 3 of them:
Jim Crow laws/segregation. Sharecropping, education for poor people in the south, rebuilding of the south, 13,14 and 15th amendments, the lost cause, distrust in the government,
Phrase that refers to Land given to freed African Americans during the Civil War by General Sherman. Was vetoed by President Johnson.
40 Acres and a Mule