Reconstruction Facts
Reconstruction Started in this year
1865
The time period when a series of plans were created and debated to bring the South back into the Union!
What is Reconstruction?
Gave African American men the right to vote
15th
Completed in 1869 and connected East and West
Transcontinental Railroad
Reconstruction was primarily focused on this region of the country
The South
What is the 10 percent plan?
Gave former slaves and anyone born in the United States citizenship
14th
Was Lincoln's VP
Andrew Johnson
Workers were held to the Land by debt
Sharecropping
This man was president during the first part of reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
This type of reconstruction was more forgiving of the South
Presidential Reconstruction / Johnson's plan
Outlawed Slavery
13th
Served under Lincoln as a Civil War General
Grant
One way in which African Americans were prevented from voting
Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, KKK intimidation
This political party opposed the President, and had different plans for reconstruction
The Republican Party
President Abraham Lincoln killed this 1864 congressional reconstruction bill with a pocket veto because he thought it was too harsh on the Confederate
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Assured all citizens would receive "Due Process" including African Americans
14th
Was the 1st President to be impeached...but not found guilty
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Under Jim Crow, African Americans and white Americans were forced to use separate public facilities, a practice known by this 11-letter word.
What is segregation?
This former top Union Civil War general became president after Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
This this type of reconstruction, the formerly enslaved would receive citizenship & Military districts were created
Radical Reconstruction
Amendments 13, 14, and 15 were known as the:
Reconstruction Amendments
Ended Reconstruction by taking the troops out of the South
Hayes
Supreme Court case that ruled Segregation was Constitutional due to "Separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)