Political
When did the reconstruction era start?
1863
This man was the first African American to serve in the senate?
Hiram Revels
How many amendments were there?
There were 3 amendments.
Who takes after Lincoln’s assassination?
Andrew Johnson
What were the northerners that moved to the South to make $$$?
Carpetbaggers
What was the 10% plan?
A plan where 10% of a state’s voters must pledge loyalty to the US and emancipation
First African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate?
Blanche Bruce
What did the 13th amendment do?
Made slavery illegal across the U.S.
What do the voters in the South have to pledge for?
Pledge for loyalty and support for emancipation.
What were the Southerners that supported the Union?
Scalawag
Who inaugurated the period of Presidential Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
One of America’s first great African American Speakers?
Frederick Douglass
What was the 14th amendment?
Citizenship to all born in U.S.
What year was the Wade-Davis Bill drafted?
1864
What helped free slaves get food, shelter, jobs, vegetation, and education?
The Freedman’s Bureau
What was the wade-davis bill?
A plan that says 50% of voters must pledge loyalty to the US and emancipation.
Who Assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the 15th amendment?
Allowed all free men to vote.
What do the radical republicans want?
Wants to punish the south and civil rights for freedmen.
What was the 13th amendment?
Made slavery illegal across the United States
Who Believed Lincoln was being too easy on the south?
The Radical Republicans
First African American to serve as a U.S. Representative.
Joseph Rainey
What is a carpetbagger?
Somebody that moves to the South during the reconstruction and makes money off the rebuilding.
Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Fought with the radical republicans because he was too lenient.
What was sharecropping similar to?
Slavery