Reconstruction Begins
This period of fixing the Southern states and bringing them back into the Union followed the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This federal agency provided formerly enslaved people with food, housing, education, and medical assistance after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
These laws were passed by Southern states after the Civil War to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What are the Black Codes?
This event was so disputed that it helped lead to the end of Reconstruction.
What was the Election of 1876?
This president's plan allowed a Southern state to begin rebuilding its government after 10% of its voters pledged loyalty to the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This constitutional protection requires the government to follow fair legal procedures before taking away a person's life, liberty, or property.
What is due process?
This system allowed formerly enslaved people and poor farmers to work land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crops they produced.
What is sharecropping?
This white supremacist organization used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from exercising their new rights during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan? (KKK)
This agreement settled the disputed election and helped bring Reconstruction to an end.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
These people believed Lincoln's plan was too easy on the South and wanted stronger protections for formerly enslaved people.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This amendment established citizenship for people born in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This term was used for Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often seeking economic opportunities.
Who are the carpetbaggers?
This rule allowed some white men to bypass voting restrictions if their fathers or grandfathers had been eligible to vote before Reconstruction.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Under the agreement that ended Reconstruction, the federal government agreed to remove these from the South.
What were federal troops?
After Lincoln's assassination, this president's approach to Reconstruction caused him to clash with the Radical Republicans in Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment prohibited denying a person's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This term was used by Southerners to describe white Southerners who supported the Union and Reconstruction.
Who are the Scalawags?
These two things made voting more difficult for African Americans after Reconstruction
What are literacy test/poll taxes
This system of racial separation and discrimination developed in the South after Reconstruction and restricted African Americans' rights in everyday life.
What is Jim Crow?
This process was used by the House of Representatives to formally accuse Andrew Johnson of serious wrongdoing after his conflicts with Congress over Reconstruction.
What is impeachment?
Southern states passed these laws after the Civil War to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved people, helping lead Congress to push for stronger constitutional protections during Reconstruction.
What are the Black Codes?
This man made history during Reconstruction when he became the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?