RECONSTRUCTION PLANS
This plan allowed Southern states to rejoin the Union when 10% of voters swore loyalty.
What is Lincoln’s 10% Plan?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States except as punishment for crime.
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This labor system required workers to farm land in exchange for a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
These laws restricted the rights and freedom of African Americans in the South.
What are Black Codes?
June 19, 1865, is better known by this name.
What is Juneteenth?
This plan was much stricter and required 50% of voters to take an ironclad oat
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This agency helped freedmen and poor whites with education, jobs, and basic needs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A major problem with sharecropping was that it often trapped workers in this condition.
What is debt/a cycle of poverty?
This term described Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
These two universities were established during Reconstruction to educate Black students.
What are Howard University and Hampton University?
One major debate after the Civil War was how to do this with the former Confederate states.
readmit/reintegrate the Southern states into the Union
This phrase symbolized the promise of land redistribution to formerly enslaved people.
What is “40 acres and a mule”?
Southern banks struggled after the war because they lacked this.
collateral
This term described white Southern Republicans who cooperated with Reconstruction governments.
What are scalawags?
This compromise ended Reconstruction in 1877.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This question shaped Reconstruction policy: had the Southern states ever legally done this?
What is seceded/left the Union?
The 13th Amendment gave this branch of government the power to enforce the amendment.
What is Congress?
This foreign source of cotton hurt the Southern economy by competing in world markets.
indian cotton
These Democrats opposed the Civil War and later opposed Reconstruction.
copperheads dem
One major success of Reconstruction was expanded civil rights and greater access to this.
education
Lincoln’s plan was considered lenient, while this congressional plan was considered harsher.
wade davis
This 1866 act promised land to freedmen, though it was rarely enforced.
What is the Homestead Act of 1866?
This group, along with freedmen, was often trapped in poverty through tenant farming and sharecropping.
poor whites
This phrase reflected the white supremacist belief that political power should remain in white hands.
What is “This is a white man’s government”?
One major failure of Reconstruction was that this economic system kept many African Americans and poor whites in long-term poverty.
sharecropping