Reconstruction and the Presidents
This was Lincoln's goal after the Civil War in his reconstruction plan.
Reunify the nation
This gave newly freed slaves and poor whites benefits including medical care, jobs, and an education.
The Freedmen's Bureau
The fee African Americans had to pay in order to vote.
poll taxes
What President was voted into office after President Andrew Johnson?
Ulysses S. Grant
What number President was Abraham Lincoln?
16
What was the process called by bringing the southern states back into the Union.
Reconstruction
These laws hindered the rights of African Americans, including the right to work anywhere except on a plantation.
The Black Codes
Define the 14th Amendment
Gave citizenship and equal protection under the laws.
*Google Question* These people were northern Republicans that moved south to profit from Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
How many State were in the Confederacy?
13
According to Lincoln's plan, this percentage of people in a state had to swear loyalty to the Union.
10% Plan
This "Civil War" amendment gave all African Americans United States citizenship.
Fourteenth Amendment?
*Double Points* What are the 3 branches of Government and define them.
Executive- Enforces the Laws
Judicial- Interprets the Laws
*Google Question* These southern Republicans supported the Union during the Civil War.
What are scalawags?
Explain President Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
To reunify the Nation without equality for African Americans.
The goals of this group included barring African Americans from voting and creating a whites only society.
Ku Klux Klan?
This was the separation of different races in public places.
Segregation?
*Daily Double* *Google Question* According to the Compromise of 1877, Democrats promised to choose this man as the new President if he promised to remove the military from the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Define what a Union State is.
States that did not participate in the act of Slavery
Congress used this form of firing for Andrew Johnson after he fired his Secretary of War. (Hint: It also happened to Donald Trump)
Impeachment
The Fifteenth Amendment made it legal to do what? and for who?
Gave all African American Men the Right to Vote
These people were given tools and land in exchange for a share of the harvest, which sometimes wasn't much.
*Google Question* This ended Reconstruction.
The Compromise of 1877?