Start of Reconstruction
Which president is assassinated prior to the Reconstruction Era truly starting?
President Abraham Lincoln
What is the 13th Amendment?
Abolish slavery
What amendments come out of reconstruction?
13th,14th,15th
What are economic issues?
Problems relating to trade, money, jobs, and finances
Moderate Republican president that was a war hero.
Who becomes president after Lincolns assassination?
Andrew Johnson
What is the 14th amendment?
Citizenship, Rights for all
A paramilitary group that uses violence to suppress African American civil rights.
KKK
What are political issues?
Issues relating to government, laws, policies, and leaders
A group that took hundreds of lives during the elections, and prevented African Americans from voting, practicing their civil rights.
KKK
A lenient Reconstruction plan that required 10% of voters in seceded Southern states to swear an oath of loyalty to the U.S.
What is the 15th amendment?
The right to vote (Only for African American men)
Systematic legal separation of races in public facilities and daily life. (What is the word?)
Segregation
What are Social issues?
Issues relating to human society, civil rights, and daily life
The president that ends reconstruction.
A stricter plan proposed by Radical Republicans that required a majority of 50% or more to swear loyalty to the Union.
What is another name for the 13,14, and 15th amendments?
Reconstruction Amendments
Southern state laws that legally enforced strict racial segregation.
Jim Crow laws
What is Share-Cropping?
A farming system where landless workers work on a landowners fields in exchange for a share of their crops that result in a ongoing cycle of debt.
What is the compromise of 1877?
Democrats agree to let Hayes become president if he stops reconstruction.
What political group wanted civil rights for African Americans?
Radical Republicans
How did Southern states exploit a legal loophole in the 13th Amendment to continue forcing African Americans into unpaid labor during Reconstruction?
Arresting them and having them work on farms as prisoners
The court case that resulted in segregation being legal.
Plessy vs Ferguson
What are Black codes?
Laws passed immedicably after the Civil War, that were meant to restrict newly freed African Americans. (Vagrancy laws)
What amendment did Plessy argue was the reason segregation was not constitutional?
14th Amendment