POTUS
Following Lincoln’s assassination, he became the 17th President of the US
Andrew Johnson
During Reconstruction, President Johnson offered a pardon to all Southern whites except ______________ and wealthy planters, restoring their political rights and all property except ____________.
Confederate leaders, slaves
Reconstruction was the period of recovery and rebuilding in the southern United States following the _________________.
American Civil War
13th Amendment
Three groups that made up Southern Republicanism
Carpetbaggers, Scalawags and African Americans
16th President
A. Lincoln
The Civil Rights Bill defined all persons born in the United States as national citizens, who were to enjoy____________________
equality before the law
True or False. The Ten-Percent Plan was announced after Reconstruction started
It prohibits the states from restricting the right to vote because of race.
15th Amendment
Native-born white Republicans, included some businessmen and planters, but most were non-slaveholding small farmers from the Southern up-country.
Scalawags
His face is on the $50 dollar bill
US Grant
President Johnson outlined how new state governments would be created. They had to _________________, repudiate secession, and abrogate (annul-cancel) the Confederate debt
abolish slavery
Lincoln
The 13, 14 and 15 Amendments are called this
The Reconstruction Amendments
This term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders. It is a very derogatory name
Carpetbagger
19th President
Rutherford B. Hayes
The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill extended the life of an agency Congress had created in 1865 to oversee the ___________________________.
transition from slavery to freedom
Reconstruction was also a healing of the ____, the tortures of slavery; rebuilding not only physical structures and governments, but _________ in the Federal Government. Rebuilding the United States of America
soul, trust
Arguably the most important addition to the Constitution other than the Bill of Rights, the amendment constituted a profound change in federal-state relations.
14th Amendment
Loyal to the Union during the Civil War, they saw the Republican Party as a means of keeping Confederates from regaining power in the South. These Southerners were not liked by Southern Democrats.
Scalawags
He signed the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
The Civil Rights Act became the first significant legislation in American history to become law over ____________________________.
a president’s veto
Under the Ten-Percent Plan, when one-tenth of a state’s prewar voters did this, they could establish a new state government.
took an oath of loyalty
It puts the principle of birthright citizenship into the Constitution and forbade states to deprive any citizen of the “equal protection” of the laws.
14th Amendment
Recent arrivals from the North. They were former Union soldiers, teachers, and businessmen
Carpetbaggers