Reconstruction
This Constitutional Amendment made slavery or involuntary servitude illegal in the United States
13th
This Constitutional Amendment gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the US, regardless of skin color.
14th
This man became President after Lincoln, fought with Congress and was impeached during his time in office.
Andrew Johnson
This man was President after Johnson and signed the 15th amendment into law.
Ulysses S. Grant
This Constitutional amendment gave the right to vote to every male citizen in the country, regardless of skin color.
15th
Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction involved only ___% of the south needing to swear an oath to the Union in order to be re-admitted.
10%
Lincoln was shot by this man at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC.
John Wilkes Booth
This organization was founded to help newly freed slaves find work, housing, health care and education.
Freedmen's Bureau
This leader of the Radical Republicans proposed a "40 acres and a mule" plan, which would've divided southern land up amongst the newly freed slaves. It didn't pass.
Thadaeus Stephens
This white supremacist organization was started in the south during reconstruction to incite fear in the hearts of newly freed slaves. It still exists today.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This southern response to the 13th amendment created "slavery in disguise", a form of farming where former slaves worked the land but never made a wage.
Sharecropping
This southern response to the Reconstruction amendments were local laws designed to punish newly freed slaves and keep them from having the same citizenship rights as whites.
Black Codes
Name given to southerners that voted Republican or were pro-union and anti-states' rights.
Scalawags
Name given to northerners that moved down south during reconstruction to influence policy, vote republican, and try to make money.
Carpetbaggers
This series of laws were designed near the end of reconstruction and established segregation which allowed businesses to deny services to people of color if they chose to do so.
Jim Crow Laws
The first Radical Republican bill for southern re-admission was this plan, which called for 51% of southerners in each state to swear an oath to the Union. It was never signed by Lincoln.
Wade-Davis Plan
This law was passed by Congress in order to impeach Andrew Johnson. It stated that the President couldn't remove any member of his cabinet that was serving before the President's arrival.
Tenure of Office Act
Why and How was Andrew Johnson impeached by Congress?
Johnson was a southerner that was disliked by Congress. He vetoed all of their reconstruction bills (even though they over-rode his veto).
Johnson fired Edwin Stanton from his cabinet, breaking a law passed by Congress, which is why he was impeached.
List two positive outcomes for newly freed slaves in the south during reconstruction.
Founding of many historically black colleges and universities
Election of many black officials to Congress
List three responses of the south to the 15th amendment, all of which were designed to keep people of color from voting.
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Grandfather clauses
List three of the four key questions that needed to be answered at the beginning of Reconstruction?
How do we bring the south back into the union?
How do we rebuild the south after the destruction of the war?
How do we integrate newly freed slaves into society?
Which branch of government should control the reconstruction process?
With the Radical Republicans in charge, they required what two things from southern states in order for them to re-join the union.
Ratify the reconstruction amendments
Begin registering black men to vote
Why and how is reconstruction considered a failure?
It led to almost a century of segregation and systemic racism
It failed because it stopped. Government intervention and military presence were removed from the south
How did the election of 1876 and the compromise of 1877 end reconstruction?
This court case in 1896 made segregation Constitutional.
Plessy vs. Ferguson