Groups and Factions
An organization that aided newly-freed Black Americans with supplies, education, and resources for jobs.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A presidential order that banned slavery in all "rebellious" states, and was later followed up by the 13th Amendment.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Name a form of discrimination that the 15th Amendment does not address.
Age, gender, literacy, family history, etc.
A law that only allowed people to vote if their grandfathers had previously voted.
What is a Grandfather Clause?
An anti-Black hate group and terrorist organization that emerged during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Who was the first to create a Reconstruction plan wherein 10% of voters in Southern states would swear loyalty to the US?
Abraham Lincoln
According to the 13th Amendment, slavery can be legally used in this situation.
What is "as a punishment for crime?"
A fake test given to anyone who could not prove an elementary school education in the South.
What is a literacy test?
A mocking nickname for pro-Reconstruction Southerners.
What are scalawags?
This was a unique part of Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
What is "pardoning Confederate leaders?"
An amendment that allows any citizen to vote, regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
A system where workers rented land, tools, and seed from landowners in exchange for a portion of their harvest.
A mocking nickname for Northerners who moved South to aid in Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
This was a shared point of both the 10% Plan and Wade-Davis Bill.
What is "banning slavery?"
An amendment banning slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A way in which the South tried to get around the 14th Amendment.
What is segregation?
A group of Republicans who advanced anti-Southern, anti-slavery, and pro-equality ideas during Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This Reconstruction plan would have required 51% of Southern voters to swear oaths of loyalty to the US.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
An amendment granting citizenship and equal rights to anyone born on American soil.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A deal in which the Republican Party won the presidency in exchange for ending Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?