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A derogatory name for Southerners who lived in the South yet supported the North (Union) given by other Southern Democrats.
What are Scalawags?
Officially made slavery illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This plan was to allow Southerners back into the Union with "malice towards none." Only 10% of the state's population had to be willing to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States and support emancipation.
What was Lincoln's plan?
A group known for terrorizing the newly freed slaves in the South and Southerners who were supportive of the North. Caused the South to have more political power because the black population was afraid to vote.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Guarantees citizenship to all people born in the United States.
The Ku Klux Klan took power in the South because of the Northern troops leaving, and the Southern states found ways to restrict black rights further and enforce segregation.
What is the Jim Crow era?
African Americans with nowhere to go after their emancipation stayed at their plantations, where they got very little wages, had to pay rent, and dealt with conditions similar to slavery.
Guaranteed all free men the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Drafted by radical republicans in 1864, this bill said 50% of voters in the Southern states seeking to rejoin the Union must take an oath of allegiance to the Union. This bill was vetoed by President Lincoln and never passed.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
Northerners who moved to the South to make money off of Southerners during their economic crisis.
What are carpetbaggers?
Laws passed in the South that limited the rights of African Americans.
What are black codes?
This plan called for the Southern state conventions to repeal secession and come back to the Union with no pledge/oath of allegiance.
What was the Andrew Johnson plan?
The first African American Senator who raised two black regiments during the Civil War and fought at the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Who was Hiram Revels?
Established by Congress in 1865, this law helped freed slaves and white Southerners who were struggling to live after the Civil War receive food, houses, jobs, medical aid, and schooling.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Democrats promise not to further dispute the results of the Hayes vs. Tilden Presidential election. This promise led to the soldiers, who were placed in the Southern states to fix the election boards, which turned the election in favor of republicans, to leave the South and end the era of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?