Acts/ Plans
Which of the Reconstruction plans was considered to be the "easiest," or most lenient, on Southern states:
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
Which amendment grants full citizenship to all individuals born in the United States including African Americans who were formerly slaves?
What is the 14th Amendment?
This person took over office of the presidency after Lincoln was assassinated and implemented a plan known as "Restoration":
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Which agency helped freed African Americans by establishing schools?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This divided the South into 5 military zones to carry out federal plans for Southern states to rejoin the union:
What is the First Reconstruction Act?
This allowed African American males the right to vote:
What is the 15th Amendment?
A secret society of terrorists:
The most prominent cash crop of the southern economy even after Reconstruction ended:
What is Cotton?
To all white Southerners, except Confederate leaders, Lincoln offered:
What is Amnesty?
This required military commanders to register voters and prepare for state constitutional conventions in the South:
What is the 2nd Reconstruction act?
This banned slavery nationwide:
What is the 13th Amendment?
The assassin of Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The landmark court case that legalized segregation nationwide under the notion, "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Northerners who supported the Republicans and moved to the South during Reconstruction were called:
What is Carpetbaggers?
This officially ended Reconstruction in the South, allowed Rutherford B.. Hayes to take the office of president, and promised more aid to the South:
What is the Compromise of 1877?
List one way the South attempted to undermine the 13th amendment:
What is sharecropping?
OR
What is the convict-lease system?
This man was a former slave who later became a senator from Mississippi?
Who is Blanche K. Bruce?
A method to keep African Americans from voting by requiring they read and explain complex parts of state constitiutions:
What is Literacy Test?
The system where a landowner rented a plot of land to a farmer in return for sharing a percentage of their crops. This system was little better than slavery due to the debt these farmers accrued:
What is sharecropping?
This changed the political balance in the South be restoring full rights to people who supported democrats?
What is the Amnesty Act?
List one way the South attempted to undermine the 14th amendment?
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Who started the NAACP?
Who WEB DuBois?
What was Andrew Johnson's reaction to the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
He did not support the law because it was passed in Congress that did not include representation from the States.
A term meaning "scoundrel" or "worthless rascal" used to describe Southerners who supported Republicans:
What is scalawag?