Reconstruction
This period (1865–1877) focused on rebuilding the South and restoring the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These Northerners moved South during Reconstruction to gain economic or political opportunities.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
These groups used violence and intimidation to restore white supremacy in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This was Lincoln’s main goal during Reconstruction.
What is to reunite the nation quickly?
This president wanted a quick and lenient reunification of the nation after the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
These Southern whites supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party.
Who are Scalawags?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This major project, completed in 1869, connected the eastern and western United States by rail for the first time.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This plan required 10% of voters in a Southern state to take an oath of loyalty.
What is the 10% Plan?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This system required farmers to give a portion of their crops to landowners as payment.
What is Sharecropping?
These voter suppression laws limited African American voting even after the 15th Amendment was ratified.
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
This was a key reason many freedmen remained economically dependent after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
This group in Congress pushed for harsher Reconstruction policies for the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This federal agency helped formerly enslaved people by providing education and aid.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This president was impeached for firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was a major long-term effect of the end of Reconstruction.
What is the rise of segregation and loss of rights for African Americans?
This event marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad when a ceremonial spike was driven in Utah.
What is the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point?
This bill required a majority of Southern men to swear loyalty before rejoining the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
These laws restricted the rights of freedmen and limited their freedoms in the South.
What are Black Codes?
This president and former Union general led the country during much of Reconstruction but faced scandals.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This agreement resolved the disputed election of 1876 and led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This conflict showed tension between presidential and congressional power during Reconstruction.
What is Andrew Johnson’s impeachment?