Vocabulary
Name given to people from the South who supports Republicans
Scalawags
Only 10% of people wanting to join the Union; proposed by Abraham Lincoln; Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana are states that approved
10 Percent Plan
John Wilkes Booth
Had an extreme approach to reconstruction
Radical Republicans
~ Should slaveholders be forgiven?
~ How many rights should freed African Americans have?
Questions around Reconstruction
People who moved to the South after the war; they wanted to help reshape the South's society
Carpetbaggers
Created by the Radical Republicans; made because they needed the majority of voters
Wade-Davis Bill
comes to office after Lincoln was killed
Andrew Johnson
Ku Klux Klan
Vice President and Secretary of War
1873 Political Scandal
Black Codes
Horace Greeley and Ulysses S Grant
an African American senator; was a Chaplain for the Army
Hiram Revels
They were affected by the 1st Reconstruction Act
Ten States
When John Wilkes Booth was captured
April 26, 1865
Lincoln's Assassination
Restoration
a runaway slave that became a senator
Blanche K. Bruce;
Schools that required integration
Florida and South Carolina
When people lost interest in Reconstruction
During Grant's administration
Required military leaders to register voters in the South
2nd Reconstruction Act
Created by Congress; made to help African Americans and poor whites while they were rebuilding the South
Freedman's Bureau
became president in the Election of 1872
Ulysses S Grant
Republican Supporters
Teachers from the North
~ white/ female
African Americans education in the south