The
Reconstruction
Ten Percent Plan
Under this plan a Southern State could form a new government after 10 percent of it's voters swore an oath to the United States
Freedmen
Men and women who had been slaves
Amnesty
Or a government pardon
Wade Davis Bill
It required 50 percent of a state's white males to take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union, it also required states to let African Americans have the right to vote.
Freedmen's Bureau
A government agency to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans
13th Amendment
It banned slavery throughout the nation
Black Codes
Laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen
14h Amendment
It defined citizens equal protection of laws
Reconstruction Act
It outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
Impeach
Or bring formal charges against
15th Amendment
It forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of race color or previous condition of servitude
Scalawags
White Southern Republicans
Conservatives
Or white Southerners who had power before the Civil War
K. K. K Or Ku Klux Klan
worked to keep African Americans and white Republicans out of office
Sharecroppers
Rented and farmed a plot of land. Planters provided seed, fertilizer, and tools in return for a share of the crop at Harvest Time
Requiring voters to pay a fee each time they voted
Poll taxes
Theses laws stated that if a voter's father or grandfather has been eligible to vote on January one 1,1867 the voter did not have to take a literacy test
Grandfather Clauses
It is the period that followed after the Congress could easily override a veto
Radical Republicans
Northerners who came to the south after the war
Carpetbaggers
Separation of races
Segregation
Blacks and whites were separated in schools, restaurants, theaters, train stations, street cars, playgrounds, hospitals, and cemeteries
Jim Crow Laws
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal so long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal in quality
Plessy V. Ferguson
Used its vast natural resources to build up its own industry instead of depending on the North
New South
Voters had to read and explain a section of the Constitution
Literacy tests