Successes of Reconstruction
Agency created to assist freedmen find work and get education.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Lincoln's assassination resulted in this Southern Democrat becoming president.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Name of the deal that ensured Hayes won the election and ended Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877, aka the Corrupt Bargain?
This amendment, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves.
What is the 14th amendment?
Ended slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Ambitious plan to grant land and a farm animal to freedmen to help them become independent and self-sufficient.
What was 40 Acres and a Mule?
Won the presidency in 1877 promising to remove U.S. troops from the South.
Who was Rutherford Hayes?
What is the name of the process by which the southern states were readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War?
Granted the right to vote, regardless of race or prior condition of servitude.
What was the 15th Amendment?
Type of farming where a farmer pays rent for the use of land in the form of a percentage of a crop.
What was sharecropping?
These were taxes charged to people, mostly freedmen, who attempted to vote in the South.
What were poll taxes?
What was the name of the plan implemented by President Abraham Lincoln for the reconstruction of the Southern states after the Civil War?
What is the 10 Percent plan?
Granted permanently equal treatment under the law to all, regardless of race.
What was the 14th amendment?
President Johnson pardoned these individuals and returned their land to them.
Who were Southern or Confederate leaders?
Organization that used violence to intimidate freedmen who attempted to assert their rights in southern states.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
The event of the Fred Scott case
What was the supreme court denying citizenship for African Americans?
This act of Congress was a success because it passed over Johnson's veto and was the first law to grant equal treatment to ex-slaves.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
The passing of the Civil Rights Act was an attempt to address these laws that restricted the freedom and civil rights of the freedmen.
What were Black Codes?
These laws created segregation in southern states.
What were Jim Crow?
In 1870, this was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate during the Reconstruction Era.
Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels?