Plans
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Amendment that banned slavery throughout the U.S.
What is the 13th?
Group that wanted the White South to be punished.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This act gave the federal government power to get involved in state affairs to protect African American rights.
What is the Civil Rights Act 1866?
Proposed the Wade-Davis Bill.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Amendment that state all people born in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S.
What is the 14th?
Claimed that Johnson was just exercising his right to challenge laws he thought unconstitutional.
What are Johnson's defenders?
Law that required the 10 states who hadn't ratified the 14th to form new governments.
What is the First Reconstruction Act?
Proposed amnesty for most of White Southerners.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Amendment that stated that government could not deny the right to vote to any man based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th?
Claimed Johnson was abusing his power and interfering with Congress's right to make laws.
Who are Johnson's critics?
Empowered the army to register voters in each district.
What is the Second Reconstruction Act?
Common requirement for all Reconstruction Plans.
What is pledging allegiance or loyalty to the Union?
Or What is creating a new government/constitution?
The first southern state to ratify the 14th.
What is Tennessee?
Wanted to grant the South amnesty, except for Confederate leaders.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Reconstruction Act that divided Southern states into military districts.
What is the First?
Plan that required that only White males who had not fought against the Union could voter for representatives.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Year the 15th was ratified.
What is 1870?
How Reconstruction may have been different if Lincoln had lived.
What is there would have been more compromise?
Year that Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina rejoined the Union.
What is 1868?