Key People
He became president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865.
Andrew Johnson
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
This devastating event happened at the Ford Theater just days after the end of the Civil War.
Lincoln's Assassination
Many freed African Americans worked as these, farming land owned by others for a share of the crops.
Sharecroppers
The end of Reconstruction led to the rise of this discriminatory system in the South.
Segregation
The famous Union general who later became president in 1869.
Ulysses S. Grant
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
14th Amendment
The period from 1865 to 1877 is known as this.
Reconstruction
This system often trapped freedmen in a cycle of debt and poverty and was known as "New Slavery" to many.
Sharecropping.
Though this area supported Reconstruction, they had eventually grown tired of supporting the government's attempts to rebuild the nation.
The North
Creator of the 10 Percent Plan; leader of the nation during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
This plan offered amnesty to most Southerners if a small percentage of them pledged loyalty to the Union.
Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan.
This term describes Northern politicians who moved South after the war.
Carpetbaggers
Reconstruction became known as the time period immediately following this major American conflict.
The Civil War
Often considered the most famous Confederate general.
Robert E. Lee
This agency was created to assist freed slaves with education and jobs.
Freedmen’s Bureau
This group used terror to keep African Americans from voting.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Many Freedmen and Women sought this after slavery to increase their opportunities.
Education
Though former slaves did technically gain rights through Reconstruction, they still left the period with a lot of this.
Debt/poverty/disrespect from their white peers.
Radical Republicans
These Southern laws were meant to control the rights of freedmen.
Black Codes
Federal troops were finally withdrawn from the South under this president.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Poll taxes and literacy tests were designed to limit this right.
The right to vote
This Northern fatigue and economic depression caused waning support for Reconstruction.
Panic of 1873