The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the Southern states back into the Union
What is Reconstruction?
Established good working conditions and pay for freed slaves
What is the Freedman's Bureau Bill?
Plan that stated:
The majority of white men from formerly Confederate states must swear loyalty to the US, formerly Confederate states must ratify the 13th Amendment, and former Confederate officials may hold office and vote.
What is the Johnson Plan?
What event's end led to the Reconstruction Era?
What is the Civil War?
a racist and violent group that began in 1865, aiming to intimidate and harm Black Americans and other minority groups to maintain white dominance
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Declared freed people to be full citizens with the same rights as White people
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Plan that stated:
10% of voters in the seceded states must swear loyalty under oath to the Union and the seceded states must abolish slavery.
What is the 10% Plan?
Which teacher will you miss the most?
Who is Mr. Fields?
Citizen’s right to vote shall not be denied on account of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
What is the 15th Amendment?
Granted citizenship to “all people born or naturalized in the United States”
What is the 14th Amendment?
Plan that stated:
Formerly Confederate states must disband their state governments, write new state constitutions, and ratify the 14th Amendment.
What is the Reconstruction Act?
How excited are you for High School?
What is SO EXCITED?
Abolished slavery throughout the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
Allowed the South to rejoin US as military districts and reduced power of the president to control Reconstruction
What is the Reconstruction Acts?
Plan that stated:
The majority of white men from formerly Confederate states must swear loyalty to the United States, the seceded states must abolish slavery, and former Confederate soldiers or volunteers cannot hold office or vote.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
What was your favorite thing we learned this year in history?
What is everything?
The social separation of groups of people, especially by race
What is segregation?
guaranteed all citizens, regardless of color, access to accommodations, theatres, public schools, churches, and cemeteries
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
Name of favorite US History Teacher
What is Mr. Fields?
in Ocoee, Florida, a white mob violently attacked the Black community after Mose Norman, a Black man, attempted to vote in the presidential election
What is the Ocoee Election Day?