Vocab
Define Sharecropper.
A farmer who worked someone else’s land and paid the landowner with part of the crops they grew.
Work the land → grow crops → give some crops to the landowner.
Example: A sharecropper might farm cotton on another person’s land and give part of the cotton harvest to the landowner as payment.
What does intimidation mean?
Intimidation = using fear to control someone.
Intimidation means trying to scare or threaten someone so they will do what you want.
Example:
The KKK used intimidation by threatening people to stop them from voting or speaking up.
What year did the reconstruction period start? (year)
1865
Who won the Civil War?
North
How many regions does the United States have?
5
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 were the three reconstruction plans?
Lincolns' plan
Johnson's plan
Radical Republicans
What is the definition of amendment?
a. parts of the Constitution
b. changes in the Constitution
c. war fought between the north and south
B
Which is which? Complete the sentence.
Word Bank: Positive, Negative
Push factors are ______________ and Pull factors are _______________.
Push factors are negative and Pull factors are positive.
What did the 13th amendment do?
Slavery is abolished
SLAVERY HAS ENDED
Who was impeached by the House of Representatives on February 24, 1868, but then was acquitted by the Senate and remained in office.
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 the Freedman's Bureau?
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?
Gave universal MALE suffrage (African American and Native Americans)
ALL MEN CAN VOTE
In what state and year did the KKK form?
Tennessee in 1866
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.
What were the Black Codes?
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
a. A law that gave Native Americans more land
b. A law that allowed the government to remove Native Americans from their lands
c. A law that ended the Civil War
B
What did the 14th 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
EVERYONE IS A CITIZEN
Fill in the blanks.
Word Bank: Southern, Northern, slavery, voting
The ________ states thought slavery should not be allowed. The ______ states thought slavery should be allowed. After the Civil War, _______ ended.
The northern states thought slavery should not be allowed. The southern states thought slavery should be allowed. After the Civil War, slavery ended.
What was the plan from the Radical Republicans Plan?
-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?
Name the five tribes forced to leave their land during "Trail of Tears."
Blackfeet
Choctaw
Cherokee
Sioux
Muscogee (Creek)
Seminole
Chickasaw
Choctaw
Cherokee
Chickasaw
Seminole
Muscogee (Creek)