Vocabulary
These Republicans believed that Southern leaders who caused the Civil War should not be allowed back into power.
this was the name given to the entire post–Civil War rebuilding period.
Reconstruction
He became president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Andrew Johnson
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
These laws tried to keep wages low and limit job opportunities for freedmen.
black codes
This word means a group pardon, often given after a war.
amnesty
One goal of Reconstruction was to reunite this.
the nation (the Union and the South)
These Southerners cooperated with Radical Republicans during Reconstruction.
scalawags
This amendment gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th Amendment
The Freedmen’s Bureau helped people in these two groups.
This act ordered the U.S. Army to make sure the South obeyed Congress’s reconstruction laws.
Reconstruction Act of 1867
List the three phases of Reconstruction in order.
Presidential Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction, and Bourbon Reconstruction?
Northerners who moved South to help with Reconstruction were known as these.
carpetbaggers
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
The main purpose of the Black Codes was to force freedmen to do this type of work.
work for white employers (cheap labor)
This is the formal process of accusing a government official of wrongdoing while in office.
impeachment
Under Lincoln’s plan, only this percentage of voters in a Southern state had to take an oath to the Union for readmission.
10 percent
This group of former slaves gained freedom after the Civil War.
freedmen
Together, these three amendments are known as this group because they reshaped freedom and equality after the Civil War.
the Reconstruction Amendments
Name one way the Wade-Davis Plan was stricter than Lincoln’s plan.
It required 50% of voters to take an oath and added extra requirements for rejoining the Union.
These laws in the South were designed to keep freed African Americans in slave-like conditions.
black codes
The Wade-Davis Plan required this percentage of voters to take an oath—five times higher than Lincoln’s plan.
50 percent
This federal agency was created to help former slaves and poor whites by providing education and supplies.
Freedman's Bureau
The 14th Amendment promised equal protection and this legal safeguard to all citizens.
due process
The Reconstruction era aimed to reunite the nation and solve these kinds of problems.
postwar problems