The years of the reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877,
The presidents during Reconstruction.
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes
The three reconstruction plans.
Lincolns plan,Johnsons plan,and radical plan
Three phases of reconstruction.
What were the 3 reconstruction plans after the Civil War?
Reconstruction is generally divided into three phases: Wartime Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction and Radical or Congressional Reconstruction
What reconstruction means, in general terms.
The act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed: the gigantic task of reconstruction after a fire.
Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction.
President Lincoln introduced his first plan for Reconstruction; the 10 % plan.
What Reconstruction plan was the harshest?
Provided full voting rights to all men aged 21 and over.
Fifteenth Amendment
Scalawag
White southerner who supported republican party
The historical definition of the reconstruction period.
the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
Projected outcome of Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan.
to reintegrate the Confederate states back into the Union, easily and quickly.
Lincoln's 10 percent plan.
Lincoln's proposal offered lenient terms of pardon and amnesty to Confederates who swore allegiance to the United States.
Terrorist group formed to gain white supremacy.
What is the KKK?
Carpet Bagger
Joins the south for their own personal gain.
Black Codes.
laws passed in the South just after the Civil War, aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers...limited freedoms.
Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
Restored the union, was a success.
Reconstruction.
Fourteenth Amendment
gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws
Opposed Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
Racical Republicans.
The most aggressive reconstruction plan.
Four Million
A failures of the reconstruction era.
African Americans were not protected.
Five Miltary districts
The south is divided to ensure that new federal laws were adhered to.
Sharecropper
Landowner allows a tenet to live and harvest crops for a portion of their profit.