I Know that Guy!
This "Guy" was the president of the U.S. from 1861-1865; his term ended with a BANG!
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This president's plan for reconstruction was to pardon Southerners who swore loyalty to the Union, rebuild the Union, and require states to accept the 13th Amendment or abolition.
What is Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?
Explain the 13th Amendment
This officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, except as punishment for a crime.
These people were white Southerners who supported the Republican Party, Reconstruction policies, and civil rights for freedmen after the Civil War.
Who are Scalawags?
This political agreement invloved Southern Democrats pledging to support Hayes as president if the Republicans promised to remove federal troops from the South and end Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877.
This "Guy" attended Lincoln's 2nd Inauguration and later shot him at a theatre where he performed.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
What were the goals of the Radical Reconstruction plan?
Their goals were to punish the Confederacy, ensure civil rights for freedmen, and restructuring Southern society (martial law).
Explain the 14th Amendment
It defines citizenship, guarantees equal protection under the law, ensures due process and abolished the "three-fifths" clause.
These people were Northerner's who moved to the South after the American Civil War, during Reconstruction, to seek personal, financial, or political gain.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
This Union general was later the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This "Guy" who was second-in-command until 1865, was sympathetic to the Southern cause and was hated by Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What was Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
A lenient (easy) plan to quickly bring Southern states back, loyalty oaths, ratifying the 13th Amendment, and repaying war debts.
Explain the 15th Amendment
It prohibits the federal government and states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
This group was created to oppose the equality of Black people and Republican Reconstruction policies in the South often using violence and intimidation.
What is the KKK?
This was a late-19th-century spiritual revitalization movement founded by the Northern Paiute prophet Wovoka, promising the return of ancestors, traditional life, and the disappearance of white settlers.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
These legislative "Guys" were the reason for the harsh punishment of the South AFTER the Civil War.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
What was Johnson impeached for? How close was he to leaving office?
Impeached for violating Tenure of Office Act. One vote from being removed from office.
This was a U.S. federal agency created by Congress to assist formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the South during Reconstruction- it provided emergency food, clothing, medical care, and education while assisting with labor contracts and reuniting families.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
What are the Enforcement Acts?
3 Congressional Acts
1) Made it a federal crime to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote
2) Placed federal elections under the supervision of federal marshals
3) The Ku Klux Klan Act: outlawed the activities of the KKK and similar groups – led to 3000+ arrests, but only 600 convictions
Why did Reconstruction end?
It ended due to Northern apathy (disinterest), violent Southern resistance, economic depression, and the Compromise of 1877.
This "Guy" took a pretty bad beating in 1856 and was one of the main leaders of the Radical Republicans.
Who is Charles Sumner?
These laws were passed during recunstruction to control the labor, movements, and rights of formerly enslaved African Americans and enforce mandatory racial segregation.
What are "Black Codes" and "Jim Crow" laws?
The Freedman’s Bureau's main goals were...
To provide food, clothing, medical care, and education while assisting with labor contracts and reuniting families to previously enslaved peoples.
This process benefited Southern planters and was a system where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a portion of the crops produced, rather than cash rent; kept most African Americans and many poor whites deeply in debt and with no hope of ever owning their own land.
What is Sharecropping?
What impact did Reconstruction have on the South?
It ushered in a system of legal racial segregation (Jim Crow laws), mass Black disenfranchisement, and severe economic exploitation through sharecropping, reversing many constitutional gains of the time.