Vocab
When was the reconstruction period? (years)
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877,
Who were the 4 presidents during Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes
What were the three reconstruction plans?
Lincolns' plan
Johnson's plan
Radical Republicans
What were the 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.
How were the Black Codes in the south overturned by the federal government?
Passage of the 13th Amendment
What does Reconstruction mean?
the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
This person proposed the 10% Plan.
President Lincoln
What Reconstruction plan was the harshest?
Was the Reconstruction successful?
Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified nation:
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
a U.S. government agency that helped formerly enslaved people after the Civil War established in 1865 and operated until 1872
What was the purpose of the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery in the United States except for punishment of crimes (felonies).
This person's reconstruction plan was primarily viewed as "Presidential Reconstruction."
President Andrew Johnson
What was Abraham Lincoln's 10 percent plan?
Lincoln's proposal offered lenient terms of pardon and amnesty to Confederates who swore allegiance to the United States.
What was one of the failures of the reconstruction era?
The economy in the South was not rebuilt, and the rights of African Americans were not protected.
What jobs did the newly freed African Americans tend to do post Civil War
Sharecropping and tenant farmers
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Who/what was Jim Crow?
A caricature based off of minstrel shows that was used to depict racist laws on Black Americans.
What was Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
Did not provide major protections for Black Americans outside of the Amendments, allowed the South to have some power over themselves.
Who won the war of reconstruction?
How did reconstruction end after the Civil War?
The Compromise of 1877 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats' promises to protect civil and political rights of blacks were not kept,
What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?
gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws (equal protection clause), and due process protected at the state level (selective incorporation)
Who led the opposition to Andrew Johnson? Leaders of the Radical Republicans
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens
What made "congressional reconstruction" so harsh?
-districted the former confederate states and had federal troops enforce the creation of a new constitution that ratified the 13th and 14th amendment
What was the goal of reconstruction?
What was the promise (never fulfilled) by the federal government from the Civil War to the newly freed enslaved persons to participate in the war?
40 acres and a mule (reparations)