Policies
These three amendments are considered the Reconstruction Amendments
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
This is the adjective we used in class to describe those Republicans who wanted to punish the South for its rebellion.
What is "radical"?
This president's plan for Reconstruction was nicknamed the ten percent plan
By the end of Reconstruction, this group of citizens still did not have equal rights, despite Congressional efforts.
Who are the freedmen?
This was the first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote
What is the fifteenth amendment?
This is the date range for Congressional Reconstruction
What is 1867 - 1877 ?
Johnson and Lincoln were both criticized for being too _____________ towards the South.
what is merciful? lenient?
This terrorist group spread fear among minority groups throughout the South, and intimidated many from voting.
What is the KKK?
This leg of the legislative branch decides in an impeachment trial if a president should be removed from office.
What is the Senate?
This Compromise ended the period we call Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867
This man was elected after Johnson.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
These laws targeted the freedmen of the South
What are the Black Codes?
This Act, issued by Congress, disallowed the President from firing members of his cabinet without Congressional approval.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
The President's veto against this act was unsustained, meaning Congress overrode it
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
These were the Congressional terms for readmission into the union.
What is the ratification of the 14th and 15th amendments?
By the end of 1865, per Johnson's plan the Confederate states needed to ratify this amendment to be readmitted into the Union. By the end of 1865, the eleven Confederate territories met this criteria
What is the 13th amendment?
This system replaced slavery in the South.
What is sharecropping?
What is the House of Representatives?
This was the first welfare program of The United States, vetoed by Andrew Johnson.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was President Johnson's last act as president.
What is the pardoning of Jefferson Davis?
These are the derogatory names Southerners gave to white opportunists
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
This is the cabinet member that Johnson fired.
Who is Edward Stanton?