Terms Part 1
Laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
Black Codes
A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
Sharecropping
Was the president who came up with the 10% plan during the Reconstruction Era
This plan pardoned 7,000 confederate leaders
Andrew Johnson's Plan
This act made it so most former Confederates could vote again. As most supported Democratic politicians, more southern Democrats returned to political office.
The Amnesty Act
Taxes that African Americans had to pay to vote
Poll Taxes
African Americans in prison were rented out to private businesses to work
Convict Leasing
Was the president who was impeached for unlawfully firing cabinet members
Andrew Johnson
This plan wanted 10% of the white male population in the southern states to swear the loyalty oath
Lincoln's 10% Plan
This made it a federal crime to try to prevent African Americans from voting. With this law, the federal government began to arrest Klan leaders and try them in court.
The KKK Act
Literacy Tests
Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States except Native Americans
14th Amendment
He was the general of the Union army and became president of the United States
Ulysses Grant
This plan wanted the majority (51%) of white males in the south to take the loyalty oath
Wade-Davis Bill
These acts protected African Americans right to vote, hold office and serve on juries.
The Enforcement Acts
This was an organization that helped freed people establish schools, purchase land, locate family members, and legalize marriages
Freedmen's Bureau
13th Amendment
He became the president after winning a close election by agreeing to take the northern military out of the southern states
Rutherford Hayes
These plans stated that slavery must be illegal
Wade-Davis Bill, Lincoln's 10% Plan, and Andrew Johnson's Plan
This act made sure that African American men got to vote, so they created five military districts each with a general and federal troops.Each military general would register each black men to vote.
The Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867
The separation of black and white people in the southern United States
Segregation
Gave African American men the right to vote
15th Amendment
A group of people who harmed African American people with violent acts and threatened them for voting and having equal protection under the law
The KKK
This plan did not let former confederate leaders vote or hold political office.
Wade-Davis Bill
An act that had let formerly enslaved people be citizens of the United States. This was the first bill to pass over a presidential veto.
Civil Rights Act of 1866