Reconstruction Laws
This was a southern law requiring African-Americans to pay a fee in order to vote.
What are Poll Taxes?
Legal separation of people according to their race.
What is segregation?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
The former Confederate States of America (CSA) is divided into 5 military districts under the direction of Union military officers, who are supported by federal troops
What is The First Reconstruction Act of 1867
A Plan to shorten the war and solidify white support for emancipation” rather than a genuine effort to reconstruct the south.
What is the 10% Plan?
Andrew Johnson's attempt to fire this person from his job resulted in Johnson's impeachment.
Who is Edwin Stanton?
Southern laws requiring people to prove they could read before they could vote.
What are Literacy Test laws?
Northerners who traveled to live and work in the South after the Civil War.
What are Carpetbaggers?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
President Andrew Johnson vetoes the bill, but Congress again overrides the presidential veto.
What was The Second Reconstruction Act of 1867
His plan allowed former Confederate military and political leaders to ask for amnesty and pardons.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This male former slave fought for all people to have full, equal legal rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Southern laws that limited what Freedmen could do and where they could live and work.
What are Black Codes?
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation, and violence to take away African-Americans' rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Responsible for the supervision and management of all matters relating to the refugees and freedmen and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Plan to redistribute confiscated land from southern whites, it gave legal title for 40-acre plots to African Americans and white southern unionists.
What was Forty-Acres and a Mule?
This was the first African-American senator.
Who was Hiram Revels?
This law allowed the Federal government to punish people who tried to take away freedmen's rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan Act?
(Force Acts)
An (often unfair) agreement to rent farmland in exchange for part of the crops grown on the land. In this arrangement, the renter owned the crops they planted and made their own decisions about them.
What is tenant farming?
Before the 13th Amendment.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Affirms the authority of the military district commanders to remove state officials from office
What is The Third Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Required that 50 percent of a state's White males take a loyalty oath to the United States (and swear they had never assisted the Confederacy) to be readmitted to the Union
What was the Wade Davis Plan?
The Compromise of 1877 made him President.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Poor Southern whites were at risk of also losing their rights because they could not have met such expectations.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Southerners who supported Reconstruction were called this name.
Who were scalawags?
Guarantees Equal protection and due process under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The proposed state constitutions to be ratified by a simple process of taking the majority vote in each state
What is The Fourth Reconstruction Act of 1868?
Plan specified southern states could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.
What is Abraham Lincoln's reconstruction plan?
He was the first African-American to serve as governor of a state.
Who is Pinckney B.S. Pinchback?