Lincoln and Johnson
Who was the 10% plan made by and make southerners do?
Lincoln made the plan making 10% of each confederate state agree to abolish slavery and pledge allegiance to the US
What is the 13th amendment?
Abolished slavery allowing freedom to African Americans
What was the first obstacle of African Americans after the war?
Southern White Democrats
Who were the Radical Republicans and what did they want?
Supported African Americans to have more civil rights
What was reconstruction and what years did it start and end?
Development after the civil war lasted 1865 - 1877
Who was Andrew Johnson and what did he do for the South?
Lincoln's vice president who was a Southern sympathiser, he became president after Lincoln was shot giving Southeners control of the government
What is the 14th amendment?
Citizenship and equal protection under the law for every US citizen
How did the KKK become an obstacle for African Americans?
They used fear too stop African Americans from using there rights.
How did Jim Crow Laws and segregation affect African American?
They forced separation between both colors, white and black
By causing backlash to African Americans through racist propaganda
What did Andrew Johnson want to do with the Southern states after the civil war?
Let them rejoin quickly without any plan to make them swear loyalty
What is the 15th amendment
The right to vote regardless of color
What is sharecropping? How did it help African Americans and cause debt?
Sharecropping is when Southeners would give land to African Americans to work on and get some profit from them. Although it helped African Americans back on their feet, it also meant that if demand went high African Americans would lose profit and put themselves in debt.
Who were the scalawags, and who called them that?
Scalawags was a nickname given to southern republicans by southern democrats
How did the compromise of 1877 help bring Reconstruction to the end?
The Democrats had accepted Hayes election victory ending reconstruction
What important event had happened at the Appomattox Court House?
General Lee of the South surrendered officially ending the civil war
How did the Freedman's Bureau help African American?
The Freedman's Bureau helped African Americans in poverty as well as helping them use there rights.
What were the black codes, and how did they affect African Americans?
Laws that were made by southerners finding loopholes to make African Americans slaves again
Why did Congress divide the South into five military districts in 1867?
The states have the ability to write new constitutions, and protect voting rights of African Americans
What was one major effect of the panic of 1873?
The economy crashed down causing reconstruction to plummet
Why was Johnson impeached by the house of representative?
He felt that African Americans were not equal to white people
Why were the Reconstruction Amendments important?
They allowed African Americans to officially be treated like normal white citizens
What was a poll tax, and how was it used to restrict voting?
Tax people had to pay to vote as African Americans had to take a literary test to vote, but most were illiterate including some white men. To get around this they used the grandfather clause so whoever's grandfather voted before was able to do so as well.
What was the reconstruction act of 1867, and why did it happen?
Made by radical republicans to divide the South into 5 military districts, they did this so they were able to supervise reconstruction
Was Reconstruction every reached after the war?