Terms
1866 a group of white Southerners in Tennessee created a secret
society opposed to civil rights for African Americans.
Ku Klux Klan
Took over the presidency after Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
10% of voters had to take this pledge and agree that slavery was illegal
10% Plan
This made slavery illegal in throughout the United State
13th Amendment
forced separation of whites and African Americans in
public spaces
segregation
Or laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
New states had to ban slavery as well as the majority of voters had to swear an oath of loyalty.
Wade-Davis Bill
1. Defined all people born or naturalized within the United States, except Native
Americans, as citizens.
2. Guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law.
3. It said that states “could not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law.”
4. Banned many former Confederate officials from holding state or federal offices.
5. It made state laws subject to federal court review.
6. It gave Congress the power to pass any laws needed to enforce it.
14th Amendment
laws that enforced segregation
Jim Crow Laws
An agency providing relief for freed-people and certain
poor people in the South
Freedmen's Bureau
Was quickly sworn into office quickly and
now Reconstruction was his responsibility.
Andrew Johnson
First he appointed a temporary governor for each state
○ Then he required states to revise their constitutions
○ Next voters elected their state and federal representatives
○ New government had to declare that secession was illegal
○ Ratify the 13th Amendment
○ Refuse to pay Confederate debts
Johnson's Plan
Gave African Americans the right to vote
Many women were angry that they did not also grant them the right to vote.
15th Amendment
segregation was allowed if “separate but equal”
facilities were provided.
Plessy v. Ferguson
These laws divided the South into 5 districts and a U.S.
military commander controlled each district.
Reconstruction Acts
Was born free in was born free in North Carolina and went to college
in Illinois. In 1870 he became the first African American in the U.S. Senate after taking
the seat from Jefferson Davis.
Hiram Revels
Which plan did Lincoln consider too strict?
Wade-Davis Bill
What amendment did Homer Plessy argue was broken when he was asked to leave a "whites only" train care section in Louisiana?
14th Amendment
sharing the crop. Land owners provided the land, tools, and
supplies, and sharecroppers provided the labor.
Sharecropping
Is the process used by the legislative body to bring charges against a public official.
Impeachment
escaped slavery and began a school for African Americans before
the Civil War. The first African American elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate.
Blanche K. Bruce
Why did Congress consider Johnson's plan as a failure?
Because they elected former Confederate leaders as their representatives as well as enacted Black Codes.
This civil rights act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans. The fear that this act would be over ruled led to the 14th Amendment.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Most successful industry development in the south
textile industry