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He became the 17th president of the United States after Lincoln's assassination
Andrew Johnson
This plan granted amnesty (forgiveness) to most Confederates and said that Confederate states must approve the 13th Amendment and 10% of voters must pledge an oath of loyalty to the Union.
Lincoln's 10% Plan
This system is when former slaves (and poor white Southerners) rented land to grow crops on since they could not afford to buy their own land.
Sharecropping
The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and reuniting former Confederate states into the Union.
Reconstruction
Rules passed by Southern states between 1865-1866 that were designed to control African Americans and limit their freedom to move, work, and contribute as citizens.
Black Codes
This plan allowed Southern states to create new governments and offered pardons to most Confederates (except leaders and wealthy planters). It did not offer support to African Americans.
Johnson's Plan
This organization was created to help the formerly enslaved transition away from slavery. It provided food, clothing, shelter, education, and medical care.
Freedmen's Bureau
This granted African American men the right to vote
15th Amendment
This was a revision to the Constitution that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans
14th Amendment
This divided the South into 5 military district and was enforced by troops to protect the voting rights of African Americans
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
This was a system of labor in which prisoners were rented out to corporations by the government to labor for free.
Convict Leasing
This act declared formely enslaved people to be citizens and granted equal protection of the law
Civil Rights Act of 1866
President Johnson's firing of the Secretary of War led to his
Impeachment
This was a hate group that targeted African Americans so they could not vote Republican since this hate group's goal was to return Democrats to power in the South.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
When President Grant was re-elected
Election of 1872
This act made it a federal crime to prevent African Americans from voting. As a result, the federal government began to arrest Klan leaders and try them in court.
The KKK Act (1871)
When Democrat Samuel Tilden ran against Republican Rutherford B. Hayes
Election of 1876
This supreme court ruling deemed that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional
Plessy v Ferguson
African Americans were forced to pass these before they could vote. White Southerners did not have to take these due to the Grandfather Clause.
Literacy Tests
This act limited President Johnson's power over the army
Command of the Army Act
This act stopped President Johnson from firing certain officials without the Senate's approval
Tenure of Office Act
This act pardoned more than 150,000 former Confederates, restoring their right to vote and hold political office
The Amnesty Act (1872)
This act protected African Americans' right to vote, hold office, and serve on juries.
The Enforcement Act (1870-1871)
He is known as the "Father of the American Cartoon."
Thomas Nast