Amendments
This Amendment banned slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
This President took office after the death of Lincoln.
What is Andrew Johnson?
This plan, made by Lincoln, involved:
-Having ten percent of Southerners pledge loyalty to rejoin the Union
What is the 10% Plan?
The Freedman's Bureau not only helped newly freed slaves, but also this group of people who had also been affected by the war.
Who are White Southerners?
This time period took place just after the Civil War and involved bringing the South back into the Union
What is Reconstruction?
This Amendment allowed for every male to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
This President took office after Andrew Johnson, and was a former Union General.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This plan, made by Andrew Johnson, involved:
-Fifty percent of Southerners pledge loyalty
-Former Confederates are able to vote and join office
What is the Johnson Plan?
This assassin was the man who killed Abraham Lincoln and was caught 10 days afterwards.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This group of people were seen as having incredibly strong opinion's about Reconstruction, and wanted immediate equal rights for all freed men
Who are Radical Republicans?
This system of targeted rules was made to get around the 13th Amendment and get newly freed blacks back into servitude
What were the Black Codes?
This man became President after elected by an Electoral Committee, and in return he ended Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
-Remaking the South's state constitutions
-Making each state pass the 14th Amendment
What is the Reconstruction Acts?
This series of laws put the South into martial law until they passed the 13th and 14th Amendments
What is the Military Reconstruction Acts?
This group of people were Northerners who came south in order to gain more jobs, and were hated by the Southerners.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
The 14th Amendment declared that all people born in the United States had rights because they were automatically this,
What is a citizen?
This man was the most outspoken of the "Radical Republicans", and was also played by Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
This plan, made by the Republicans, involved:
-Fifty percent of Southerners pledging loyalty
-Former Confederates cannot vote or hold office
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
The Compromise of 1877 was decided when this group allowed for Rutherford B. Hayes to win in return for him ending Reconstruction.
What is the Electoral Committee?
This is an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
What is Amnesty?
This act was passed in response to Andrew Johnson's disdain for the constitutionality of the different Amendments.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This Democratic nominee for President lost in the 1876 Election due to government corruption.
Who is Samuel Tilton?
This plan was created as the "Happy Medium" between Lincoln's plan and the Republican's plan
What is the Johnson Plan?
This was the only state in District 1.
What is Virginia?
This was a special tax people had to pay before they could vote, Set up in an effort to deny the vote to African Americans.
What is a poll tax?