Plans for Reconstruction
How did Lincoln respond to the Wade Davis Bill?
He used his pocket veto
The 15th amendment especially angered which group of people?
Women
Northerners who moved South for opportunity and hopes to profit from Reconstruction
Black Codes
What did the Freedman's Bureau Provide?
Food, clothing, and established public schools for formerly enslaved people and poor whites.
What reconstruction plan did the Radical Republicans introduce?
Wade Davis Plan
What was the Civil Rights Act?
The first federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
After the impeachment crisis, who was seen as a national hero, leading to his election?
Ulysses S. Grant
Which State and local laws that enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the Southern United States.
What was Home Rule?
The ability of Southern states to govern without federal military interference after 1877.
What was Reconstruction's most enduring educational achievement?
The creation of a comprehensive, state-funded public school system for both Black and white children in the South.
Which amendment Granted citizenship to all persons born in the US?
14th Ammendment
Who was the first Black man to be apart of the senate, and who did he replace?
Hiram Revels replacing Jefferson Davis
What was the Mississippi Plan
Enforcing Poll taxes and Literacy Tests to strip Black voting rights.
What was the Crop Lien System?
A credit system used by sharecroppers and share tenants who pledged a portion of their future crops to local merchants in exchange for supplies and food; it frequently resulted in a cycle of permanent "debt peonage.
In Lincoln's Second Inaugural address, what did he say he wanted to do in his reconstruction plan?
He wanted "malice toward none, with charity for all"
Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act by removing the Secretary of War _____?
Edward Stanton
Name 2 important Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
What act was enacted to protect Black rights in 1871
KKK Act
What was the freedmen opinion on Sharecropping?
What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Act?
Divided the South into five military districts and required states to ratify the 14th Amendment to rejoin.
What was the deeper reason that Congress Impeached Andrew Johnson?
Congress hated that he was blocking their Reconstruction efforts.
Who led the KKK
Nathan Bedford Forest
What supreme court ruling legalized the Jim Crow Laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
What did US vs Cruikshank rule?
The 14th Amendment only protected citizens from state violations of civil rights, not from the actions of individuals or private groups