Civil War Advantages & Strategies
This region possessed superior factories, weapons production, and railroad miles before and during the Civil War.
The North (the Union)
The constitutional amendment that formally abolished slavery throughout the entire nation.
The 13th Amendment
Lincoln’s primary first goal for Reconstruction at the beginning of the process.
* Readmitting Southern states quickly and smoothly
* 10% Plan
* Unite the nation
The federal agency that provided food, medical care, and schools to freed people and poor whites.
Freedmen’s Bureau
This demographic group saw a massive increase in voter registration and elected officials in the South during Reconstruction.
Black men
This region held the advantage of fighting a defensive war on familiar home territory
The South (the Confederacy)
The amendment granting citizenship rights and equal protection under the law to all persons born in the U.S.
The 14th Amendment
The congressional group that demanded strict federal protections for freedmen and harsh terms for Southern re-entry.
Radical Republicans
The term for Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction for political or economic opportunities.
Carpetbaggers
The political deal that officially brought an end to the Reconstruction era.
The Compromise of 1877
The strategy to suffocate the Southern economy by blockading Atlantic ports and controlling the Mississippi River.
The Anaconda Plan
The amendment protecting voting rights for African American men regardless of race.
The 15th Amendment
President Ulysses S. Grant used federal military force during Reconstruction to combat this terrorist group.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
The derogatory term used for Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction policies.
Scalawags
He became President of the United States as a direct result of the Compromise of 1877.
Rutherford Hayes
Lincoln's 1863 proclamation declaring slaves free in Confederate states in rebellion
Emancipation Proclamation
Laws enacted by Southern legislatures immediately after the war to restrict the physical rights and economic freedom of African Americans.
Black Codes
The federal law that divided ten former Confederate states into five military districts ruled by Union generals.
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
An agricultural system where high costs for seeds and tools created a continuous cycle of debt for tenant farmers.
Sharrecropping
Under the Compromise of 1877, Southern Democrats agreed to Hayes' presidency in exchange for this action.
Removal of federal troops from the South
Lincoln's speech stating that the war tested whether a nation dedicated to human equality could endure.
Gettysburg Address
He made history during Reconstruction as the very first African American elected to serve in the United States Senate.
Hiram Revels
The President whose administration was politically weakened by financial corruption and economic panic.
Ulysses S. Grant
Reconstruction state governments improved Southern education by creating these.
Statewide public school systems
Name a major failure or LOSS of Reconstruction after federal troops left the South.
-Passage of Jim Crow laws that stripped African Americans of civil rights
-Southern states went back to how they were treating African Americans through black codes
-Radial Republicans lost their power and African Americans lost their protections