Important People
First started the 10 Percent Plan and and provided the foundation for emancipation
What is Abraham Lincoln?
What is Washington, D.C?
It was passed in 1865, and abolished slavery and nonconsensual labor throughout the U.S., except as a punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was the start of "Black Codes" and was made to put an end to freedom. The acts divided the South into 5 military districts.
What is the Passage of the Reconstruction Acts?
This was established by Congress in 1865 and was created to help once enslaved people and help them for their transition to freedom. They provided food, medical aid, and thousands of school to education them.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
He oversaw the military army of the South and used his power to enforce the Reconstruction Acts
What is Ulysses S. Grant
This is the home of President Andrew Johnson. He assumed office after the assassination of Lincoln.
What is Greeneville, Tennessee?
This was passed in 1868 and granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S., which included once enslaved people. It also prohibited people from denying anyone "life, liberty, or property" without exact reason from the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
He was impeached because of his violation of the Tenure of Office Act.
What is the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson?
This was the rapid spread of political rights for Black Americans who just began voting. They met with a lot of backlash. This led to terrorist groups like the Klu Klux Klan to use violence to scare Black voting.
What is the White Resistance?
What is Frederick Douglass?
This was where the Memphis Race Riots took place in 1866. White mobs attacked Black citizens who were just freed, and led to the 14th Amendment.
What is Memphis, Tennessee?
This was passed in 1870. It prohibited the federal and state governments from denying a citizen from the right to voice based solely on their race, color, or anything above.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This unwritten political deal ended the Reconstruction era. Republicans agreed to withdraw the remaining troops from the South in exchange for Democrat Acknowledgement of Rutherford B. Hayes as president.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Most newly freed people were forced into this. Landowners provided land and seeds in exchange for a share of their crop. There were high interest rates to major in them with debt.
What is the rise of sharecropping?
He was a senator from Massachusetts who was part of the Radical Republicans party. He fought a lot for Black civil rights.
What is Charles Summer?
This is where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House, Virginia?
This was passed in 1861, and was a proposed amendment by Congress to avoid the Civil War by protecting slavery. This was never ratified.
What is the Corwin Amendment of 1861?
These two amendments expanded civil rights. They granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all citizens. It also prohibited the government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race.
What is the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments?
White Southerners used these insulting terms. These were used to describe Northerners. were moved south for business and the other words was used for white southerners who supported the Republican party and reconstruction policies.
What is Carpetbaggers and Scalawags?
He was Lincoln's successor. His policies for the South allowed the way of "Black Codes" and gave more power to former Confederates.This led to his impeachment by Congress.
What is Andrew Johnson?
This is where the U.S government first began moving once enslaved people to freedom during the Civil War.
What is Beaufort, South Carolina?
This was passed in 1920. This was ratified many years later but the women's suffrage movement led to this.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This was passed on December 6th, 1865 which abolished slavery
What is the Ratification of the 13th Amendment?
This described the uprising and 2,000 African Americans who held public office. This included 16 members of Congress, hundreds of state legislators and two U.S. Senators.
What is Black political leadership.