End of Civil War
Why did Abraham Lincoln not oversee Reconstruction?
He was assassinated.
Occurred when one political party had a super majority in which branch of Government?
Legislative Branch
Controlled both houses of Congress.
Who was President after Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
Laws that enforced Segregation.
Named after a fictional person
Jim Crow Laws.
The act of freeing enslaved people from bondage is called
The emancipation proclamation freed the slaves in which part of America? (It's not the entire country)
Freed the slaves in the Confederacy. Not those in the border states still part of the Union.
Which Political Party was in charge of Radical reconstruction?
Democrats or Republicans
What group was not protected by President Johnson?
White Supremacist Group that would terrorize African Americans during Reconstruction
The KKK
Ku Klux Klan
What was the goal of Black Codes?
Limit the rights of African Americans
John Wilkes Booth
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What did each Reconstruction Amendment do?
13- Ended Slavery
14- Birthright citizenship and Equal Protection
15- Gave African American men the right to vote
Did Johnson care more about punishing the South or quickly reuniting the country?
Quickly Reuniting the country
Who did Radical Republicans send to the South to enforce new laws and protect African Americans?
What is Sharecropping?
Many formerly enslaved people worked on land they did not own in exchange for shelter and a share of the crop.
Now that the Slaves were free, what was the biggest issue regarding their futures?
What kind of rights were African Americans going to have? Would they be equal?
How did Lincoln's plan and the Radical Reconstruction plans
Lincoln wanted to bring the South back in easily while the Radicals wanted to punish the South.
Who came back into power in the South because of President Johnson's policies?
Former Confederate leaders
The Supreme Court case Plessy vs Fergusson set what legal precedent in America
"Separate but equal"
or
Segregation
What is De Facto Segregation?
Segregation based on Social Norms not by law.
Lincoln's 10 percent plan would have allowed the Southern states to rejoin the Union on what condition?
10 percent of the population had to pledge loyalty to America and accept the end of slavery.
Bureau that supported newly freed slaves and poor white Southerners.
Built schools and reunited families separated by slavery
Freedmen's Bureau
How did Johnson's plan differ from Lincoln's?
Andrew Johnson was even more lenient than Abraham Lincoln
Why did the Freedmen's Bureau struggle to keep their changes permanent in the South?
Lack of funding and general racism among Southern whites
What is De jure Segregation
Segregation enforced by law.