People
16th president of the United States, supported presidential reconstruction, later was assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln
White supremacist hate group that terrorized communities and tried to stop African Americans from exercising their right to vote
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment
The period of time following the Civil War in which the nation needed to be rebuilt physically, socially and legally.
What is Reconstruction?
a system where a landowner would share a piece of land to farm with a freed slave. This slave would receive a small portion of the crops. Usually led to a cycle of debt and poverty.
What is Share Cropping
Plessy Vs. Ferguson was a Supreme Court case that ultimately ruled that this practice of separating people by race, was in fact, legal
Segregation
"As the war draws to a close, it is time for the nation to heel. We must have malice towards none and charity for all. Let us bind of the nations wounds and move forward together again. The war was punishment enough."
Abraham Lincoln
took over as president after President Lincoln was assassinated, got impeached by radical republicans
Who is Andrew Johnson
helped freed slaves with healthcare, education, location services, etc.
What is Freedman's Bureau
laws created by south to limit freed slaves rights (before reconstruction ended)
What are Black Codes
After President Lincoln was assassinated, the man took over as President.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What is one reason some Northerners eventually tired of Reconstruction?
Taxes, depression, corruption
Of the different Presidents that presided over Reconstruction, he worked with Congress to be the toughest on the South
U.S. Grant
"It must remain a white man's government. Apologize to me for seceding and come on back!"
Andrew Johnson
18th president during reconstruction
worked to implement reconstruction
Who is Ulysses S Grant
this group wanted stronger restrictions on how the South can rejoin union
What is Radical Republicans
Laws that limited African American rights after reconstruction ended and created Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
political deal between both political parties in 1877 that effectively ended Reconstruction
What was the Compromise of 1877
Which amendment did many people claim Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws violated?
14th Amendment (equal protection under the law)
Failing a literacy test, or failure to pay a poll tax could be offset by this other Southern law
Grandfather Clause
"As president I must say I feel I have a responsiblity to protect the rights of the newly freed people of this country and if that means stripping rights from those who suceeded and tried to keep them in bondage, so be it!"
U.S. Grant
first african american senator
This man wanted a lenient and quick way to reunite the union and felt that losing the war was punishment enough for the South
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Which amendment gave equal protection under the law?
What is the 14th Amendment
Name 3 components of the Compromise of 1877
Republican Hayes allowed to be President
Military Removed from the South
Self-government returned to Southern States
Federal Aid to the South
Name 3 ways the South tried to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote
What are literacy tests, poll taxes and the grandfather clause
In order for a Southern state to return to the Union under Lincoln's plan, what percentage of the voting population had to swear loyalty to the United States? Why did he settle on this number?
10 percent
Felt it was the most achievable and wanted to move the country forward
"I must say, I did not believe in secession and thought it a poor idea. However, my heart was always with my people of Virginia, so I had no choice but to support them and their choice. Hence I found myself leading the Rebel Army fighting for a cause I did not agree with."
Robert E. Lee
Name the four presidents who served during the time period of Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes
Name the two derisive names Southerners gave to people helping with Reconstruction, one was for northerners who moved South to make money off Reconstruction, the other was for Southerners who they resented for supporting Reconstruction efforts
Scalawags and carpetbaggers
Name the 3 Reconstruction Amendments and what each did.
13th-abolished slavery
14th-granted birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law
15th-gave African American males the right to vote
Reconstruction lasted for a 12 year time period. What were the years?
1865-1877
What law was passed in 1872 that allowed for all ex-Confederates to get their rights back including voting and the ability to hold office.
What was the Amnesty Act?
Explain 2 reasons why the K.K.K. was able to get away with so much in the South during the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s.
Many people in power supported them or were them
People were afraid to testify to what they saw
"You emancipated us. I thank you....But Sir, ours is the most extraordinary case of any people ever emancipated on the globe. . . . you turned us loose to the sky, to the storm, to the whirlwind, and, worst of all, you turned us loose to the wrath of our infuriated masters.
Frederick Douglass