Miscellaneous
This group supported white supremacy
Ku Klux Klan
What did the 13th amendment do for African Americans?
abolished slavery
Lincoln's main goal for Reconstruction under 10% plan was
to restore the Union as quickly and painlessly as possible
Most common form/system of farm work for former slaves during Reconstruction was
sharecropping
What was Freedmen's Bureau?
Organization that assisted former slaves with transition into society (education, land, food)
This person was impeached by Congress
Andrew Johnson
What did the 14th amendment do for African Americans?
gave citizenship, also stated that states can't take away people's civil rights - rights to property, serve on jury etc.
Radical Republicans
In agriculture the economic Reconstruction goal was
small farms and growing different crops
Laws that implemented in the South to restrict African Americans' rights ate the beginning of Reconstruction
Black Codes
This law allowed people to vote only if their fathers and grandfathers could vote before Reconstruction
Grandfather Clause
The 15th amendment gave African Americans the right to
vote
Radical Republicans' plan
In industry the economic Reconstruction goal was
support different industries: tobacco, textile mills, iron, steel. Building of railroads.
Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses were all means to prevent African Americans from
voting
This Reconstruction plan required the southern states to pay war debt after Civil War
Andre Johnson's Plan
What year was the Civil Rights Acts passed
1866
President Lincoln's and President Johnson's plans both were considered as too lenient
TRUE or FALSE
True
Northerners who moved south after Civil War to take advantage of economic opportunities were
Carpetbaggers
This group used intimidation and violence against blacks
Ku Klux Klan
During Radical Reconstruction blacks made great gains in these two areas
politics and education
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
removing the army from the South
White southerners who supported radical republican policies in the south were
Scalawags
Economic development in the South remained slow, in agriculture the single crop farming - cotton stayed dominant.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE
This law led to segregation of races by the late 1800s
Jim Crow Laws