Reconstruction Plans
What is Lincoln’s 10% Plan?
Lincoln’s plan that required only 10% of a state's 1860 voters to take an oath of allegiance to the U.S. to rejoin the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate States and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.
What are the Black Codes?
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to limit the freedom and opportunities of African Americans.
What is the Amnesty Act (of 1872)?
The act passed in 1872 that restored the right to vote and hold office to most former Confederates.
What did Lincoln not do during his second inaugural address?
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This bill, favored by Radical Republicans, required 50% of a state's citizens to pledge loyalty, and was vetoed by Lincoln.
Who are Scalawags?
White Southerners who supported the Reconstruction governments and were often viewed as traitors by former Confederates.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment (ratified in 1865) officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is Southern Redemption?
The political movement that saw the return of White Democratic political control to the South, often achieved by suppressing Black voter turnout.
What did Lincoln propose in his final public speech?
African Americans be given the right to vote.
What is Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson's plan, required Southern states to ratify the 13th Amendment and repeal their ordinances of secession.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
A white supremacist organization that used terror and violence to intimidate African Americans and White Republicans.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This amendment (ratified in 1868) granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
Who won the Election of 1876 decided?
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was ultimately declared the winner by a single electoral vote.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau biggest impact on newly freed slaves?
Providing Education
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This political group in Congress sought to punish the South and protect the rights of formerly enslaved people during the Reconstruction era.
Who is Samuel J. Tilden?
The Democrat politician who won the popular vote but lost the contested 1876 presidential election.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This amendment (ratified in 1870) granted voting rights to all male citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is Sharecropping and Tenant Farming?
A system of labor where formerly enslaved people rented land and paid the owner with a portion of their crops, often leading to a cycle of debt.
Who assassinated president Lincoln and where did it take place?
John Wilkes Booth / Ford's Theater
What was the Reconstruction?
The main goal of Reconstruction, which was to reintegrate the Confederate states into the Union and address the rights of formerly enslaved people.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction, often to aid the freedmen or to seek economic and political opportunity.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
State and local laws, mostly enacted after 1877 in the South, that enforced racial segregation in public and private life.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The informal agreement that effectively ended Reconstruction by giving the presidency to Hayes in exchange for the removal of all remaining federal troops from the South.
With travel being unrestricted for newly freed individuals, what was one of their main goals that was now allowed?
Look for lost/sold family members.