President Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
The name of President Johnson's Reconstruction Plan:
Presidential Reconstruction
The Freedmen Bureau's MAIN GOAL:
help Black Americans (Freedmen) transition from slavery to freedom
The three amendments that were ratified during Reconstruction were the:
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
African Americans who failed to sign a contract or were found without steady employment were considered:
Vagrant
Rebuilding the infrastructure in the United States was priority number one, specifically the:
Railroads
Andrew Johnson was trained as a child in this trade:
Tailoring
The original plan for the management of former Confederate lands was known as:
"40 acres and a Mule"
An amendment is:
a formal change or addition made to a document, law, or agreement to modify its terms.
The Codes made it so Black citizens were typically barred from serving in:
Juries, Cases against white people
Transformation of the massive plantation system into a new economic model:
Sharecropping
She played a critical role in Andrew Johnson's development, teaching him to read, write, and master arithmetic:
Eliza McCardle
The Freedmen Bureau's most enduring success:
Founding of primary and college level Schools
Granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States" and guaranteed all citizens "equal protection under the laws":
The 14th Amendment
The Black Codes developed in the wake of the ratification of what Amendment?
The 13th Amendment
Despite existing farmland depletion, the South dramatically expanded its agricultural output. This was accomplished by clearing swampy forests to create new cotton farms, notably in the:
Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
A member of a municipal legislative body, such as a city council:
Alderman
The 4 "E's" of the Freedmen's Bureau:
Education, Employment, Equality, Economic opportunity.
Abolished slavery for good in the United States:
The 13th Amendment
A racial terrorist group born from Confederate ideologies:
The Ku Klux Klan
Atlanta became the physical manifestation of:
The "New South"
Because Johnson's approach gave white Southern state governments free rein to determine the social and economic status of the freedmen, these policies came into effect:
Black Codes
The difference between Equality and Equity is:
Equality means giving everyone the same resources and opportunities, treating all identically, while equity means giving people different resources based on their individual needs to achieve a fair and equal outcome
To be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude would be in violation of this amendment:
The 15th Amendment
The Black Codes were a direct result of President Johnson's:
Lenient Reconstruction Policies
Republican Blanche K. Bruce of Bolivar County, Mississippi, was famous for being:
The first African American to serve a full term in the Senate