Amendments
Abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
Divided the former Confederate states (not TN) into 5 military districts under military rule.
Military Reconstruction Acts
Total number of Southern Military Reconstruction Districts.
5
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FREE SPACE
Created the “separate, but equal” doctrine that allowed segregation to continue until the 1960s.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
Guaranteed equal accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service.
1875 Civil Rights Act
Give an example of work accomplished by the Freedman's Bureau.
Help freedman to read and write
Act as legal advocates for the freedmen
Help freedman find separated family members
Reconstruction
Putting the country back together
State or local ordinances (laws) that further restricted African Americans by supporting segregation and disenfranchisement until the 1960s.
Black Codes/Jim Crow laws
First attempt to define citizenship and states all citizens have equal protection under the law. (Would later be the basis for the 14th Amendments)
1866 Civil Rights Act
Forgave and removed restrictions on ex-Confederates (except top leaders).
Amnesty Act
Give an example of 1 of the 3 Problems to Solve (What they ARE, not the answers)
What to do with 4 million freed slaves?
What to do with the former Confederate states?
Who can let states back into the Union – Congress or the President?
Sharecropper
Freed slaves and poor whites without land who would farm for landowners in exchange for a share of the profits
This decision officially ended Reconstruction.
The Compromise of 1877
All people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens with due process rights.
14th Amendment
Used to protect African-Americans’ rights under the 14th and 15th Amendments after acts of violence by the KKK.
Enforcement/Force Act
What did Lincoln do with the Wade Davis Bill?
He Pocket-Vetoed it
Amnesty
Forgiveness/Pardon
Upheld Congressional/Radical Reconstruction and ruled that states could not secede from the Union.
Texas v. White
Give an example of a state action that conflicted with the 14th and 15th Amendments that were put into effect after Reconstruction to keep African Americans from voting.
Literacy tests, Poll taxes, Black Codes, and/or Jim Crow laws
Prohibited the President from removing any federal official with the consent of the Senate.
Tenure of Office Act
List ALL THREE unsuccessful plans for Reconstruction
1. Lincoln's Plan
2. The Wade Davis Bill
3. Johnson's Plan
Disenfranchised
Not allowed to vote
What happened when Andrew Johnson allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act?
He was impeached by the House, but found "Not Guilty" by the Senate.