Reconstruction Era
This period, usually dated from 1865–1877, focused on rebuilding the South and determining the rights of formerly enslaved people.
What is Reconstruction?
This president created the Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States, except as punishment for a crime after conviction.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This organization provided schools, medical care, food, legal assistance, and help finding jobs after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This terrorist organization used threats, violence, and murder to oppose Reconstruction and target Black people and their supporters.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
These people were formerly enslaved people who became free after the Civil War.
Who are Freedmen?
Under Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, this percentage of a Southern state's voters had to swear loyalty to the United States.
What is 10 percent?
This amendment established citizenship for people born or naturalized in the United States and promised equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
These white Southern Republicans supported Reconstruction.
Who are Scalawags?
These Southern laws restricted the freedom, movement, employment, and rights of Black people soon after the Civil War.
What are the Black Codes?
After the Civil War, the Southern economy was damaged because this major industry had been interrupted and much of the land and infrastructure had been destroyed.
What is agriculture?
This stricter Reconstruction plan was supported by Radical Republicans and required a larger number of Southern voters to swear loyalty.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This amendment prohibited the government from denying a man's right to vote because of his race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These Northerners moved to the South after the Civil War, sometimes seeking business or political opportunities and sometimes helping rebuild the region.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
These state and local laws enforced racial segregation in places such as schools, transportation, restaurants, and public buildings.
What are Jim Crow laws?
In addition to rebuilding buildings, farms, and railroads, the South had to do this politically after losing the Civil War.
What is reunite with the United States?
After Lincoln's assassination, this vice president became president and supported a more lenient approach toward the Southern states.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
If you remember "citizenship and equal protection," you should think of this amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment?
In this farming system, farmers worked land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the idea of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Freedom did not immediately give formerly enslaved people these things, which many still had to fight for during Reconstruction.
What are equal treatment, land, money, education, safety, and rights?
Put these Reconstruction-era presidents in the correct order: Grant, Johnson, Lincoln.
What is Lincoln → Johnson → Grant?
In 1877, this happened in the South, marking the end of the Reconstruction Era and reducing federal protection for Black citizens.
What is the removal of federal troops from the South?
This farming system often trapped formerly enslaved people and poor farmers in debt because they borrowed money or supplies and could owe more than they earned after the harvest.
What is sharecropping?
Name three tactics used to prevent Black citizens from voting.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?