The first challenge of Reconstruction was this feeling felt by both sides.
What is people on both side were upset about the casualties of the war?
This plan demanded states ratify the Reconstruction amendments and Freedmen have representation in new Southern Governments.
What is the Radical Republican Plan?
Who are Freedmen
This amendment ended slavery...unless of course you were a criminal.
What is the 13th Amendment
This supreme court case made it legal to segregate based on race.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson.
One major struggle of newly freed people living in the South?
What is No money/jobs. No place to live. Racism.
This softer Reconstruction plan aimed at making it easier for Southern States to re-enter the Union and gave land back to their previous landowners.
What is Johnson's Plan
This group of people moved to the South after the war to take roles in government and social advance themselves.
Who are Carpetbaggers
This amendment created naturalized citizens, protecting everyone with due process under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
This loophole in the 13th amendment was exploited using Black codes.
What is, slavery is allowed if punishment for a crime?
This group, and others like it, were trying to create fear in Freedmen so that they wouldn't vote.
What is the KKK?
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause?
This group controlled Congress and were pushing for extended rights of freedmen.
Who were the Radical Republicans
This amendment said Everyone regardless of color could vote...as long as you were a male.
What is the 15th amendment?
Literacy tests were unfair.
What is they were subjective and nearly impossible to pass?
This three word saying made segregation legal in the South and ultimately limited the opportunities of Freedmen.
What is, "Separate but Equal"?
If Radical Republicans had their perfect plan put in place, who would have been guaranteed a spot in governement?
What are Freedmen?
Name of the government agency sent to the South to ensure Freedmen had rights and to assist them in starting their new lives.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These laws written as a way to stop African Americans from gaining their right made it illegal to do simple things, like take a stroll in the park.
What are Black Codes?
This early civil rights activists believed that the best way to advance African American Rights was through hard work and "earning" white respect
Who is Booker T. Washington
One of the few job opportunities around for Freedmen trapped families in generational debt to landowners in the South.
What is Sharecropping
One negative outcome of Johnson's plan of Reconstruction?
What is, Sharecropping, segregation, loss of control of Southern States, white supremacy groups?
This presidents Reconstruction plan was easy on Southern States trying to re-enter the Union
Who is President Andrew Johnson
These codes written after Plessy v. Ferguson extended segregation and made life in the South hard on freedmen.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This early civil rights activist believed the best way to advance African American Rights was through education.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois