Presidential Plans
This proposal stated that if a small portion of Southern states declared allegiance, they would be accepted into the Union.
What is the 10% Plan? OR What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
(Also accepting Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction)
Congress expanded this supportive measure to provide clothing, food, schooling, and more to Black Americans. Due to underfunding and little presidential support, the measure was dissolved by 1872.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The 14th Amendment was ratified during Johnson's time in office as a response from Congress to his inaction for Black Americans.
What is July 9th, 1868?
Depending on the state, these policies could prevent Black Americans from marrying whites, carrying weapons, owning land, and more.
What are Black Codes?
This famous cartoonist was known for his caricature style, political propaganda, and especial hatred for Andrew Johnson's presidency.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This bill was an attempt by Congress to push back against Lincoln's Reconstruction proposal, which was deemed as too forgiving. It was ultimately pocket-vetoed by Lincoln.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This addition to the Constitution grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S., and it guarantees equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The 13th Amendment was ratified on this day at the end of the Civil War, abolishing slavery on a nationwide level.
What is December 6th, 1865?
This group used violence and scare tactics to severely limit or completely stop Black Americans from exercising rights, like voting
What is the KKK? OR What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This farming process affected both Black and impoverished White Americans, and involved working an owner's land in exchange for a portion of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
This President effectively ended Reconstruction when he promised to end martial law in the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This act was established to protect the voting rights of Black men and states that no one can be denied from voting based on race, color, or previous servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This year saw the impeachment and acquittal of Andrew Johnson as well as the first election of Ulysses S. Grant to the presidency.
What is 1868?
This character started as a theater stereotype in the North and became a catch-all term for Black Americans, especially in the South.
Who is Jim Crow?
These Northern individuals moved south during Reconstruction and were seen by Southerners as greedy and opportunistic, often reported as allegedly being so poor that all of their belongings could fit in one small carrier.
Who are carpetbaggers? OR Who is a carpetbagger?
This President vetoed many acts including the Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction Act of 1867, and advised the South to reject the 14th Amendment.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Vetoed by Johnson, this act allowed the Union to impose martial law on Southern Confederate states to ensure they (1) ratified the 14th amendment and (2) granted the right to vote to Black men. Only then would the states be rejoined with the Union.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This year, a controversial election ended when Rutherford B. Hayes was declared President.
Hint: The name of the compromise between the parties is referred to with the year Hayes started in office, not the year he was elected.
What is 1876?
These acts of certain states established that anyone of any Black ancestry would be separate from Whites in public places.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This event was one of several economic scandals during Grant's presidency and led to general distrust of the Republican Party.
What is the Panic of 1873?
This President encouraged martial law in some states like Louisiana and South Carolina, but was more lenient with other areas in the South.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This decision gave President Grant the power to send federal troops to intervene in violent KKK activity in the South.
What is the Enforcement Act of 1871?
Historians debate which year between these two was the actual beginning of Reconstruction.
What is 1863 and 1865?
This 1896 Supreme Court case resulted in segregation in the South under the justification of "separate but equal" conditions.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This 1915 silent film revitalized activity from the Ku Klux Klan, in part due to it being the first movie shown in the White House with support from President Woodrow Wilson.
What is Birth of a Nation?