Making a Plan
This president's plan was viewed as too "soft" by the Radical Republicans
President Lincoln
Amendment that made slavery illegal
13th amendment
What agency helped former slaves with education, jobs, and legal issues?
Freedman's Bureau
This president was impeached by Congress
Andrew Johnson
The 12-year period of American history that officially ended after the Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction
Free pubic ____________ improved education for all people in the south
This plan said states must do three things to rejoin the union: 10% of voters swear an oath of loyalty to the union, ratify the 13th amendment, say no to secession
The 10% plan or Presidential (Lincoln) Reconstruction
Amendment that made it illegal to deny the right of voting because of race, color, or previous servitude (slavery).
15th amendment
3 ways Blacks were disenfranchised in the South by Black Codes and Jim Crow laws
poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause
Congress failed to remove Johnson from office by how many votes?
one
Won the presidential election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
TRUE or FALSE: Lincoln's goal of reuniting the Union was a success of Reconstruction
TRUE
This plan was similar to Lincoln's--softer on the South--and pardoned Confederate leaders
Johnson's Presidential Plan
What is disenfranchisement?
denying (not giving) people their civil rights like voting
The Freedmen's Bureau also helped poor and homeless people of this race
white people
This president supported rights for African Americans and fought the KKK
Ulysses S. Grant
This Compromise ended military rule in the south
Compromise of 1877
TRUE or FALSE: poverty in the South for blacks and whites was mostly ended during Reconstruction
FALSE: sharecropping and Jim Crow laws kept people in a cycle of poverty
This plan was harsh on the South--50% loyalty oath, states must ban slavery and allow freedmen to vote
Congressional (or Radical Republican) Reconstruction Plan
Amendment that guaranteed due process (equal protection) for all citizens.
14th amendment
Freemen had few job options other than _______ or _______ where they often ended up working for former slaveholders for little or no money, almost the same as slavery
sharecropping and tenant farming
Congress tried to control the south and keep the rights of Black safe by doing what?
This group and others helped keep black people oppressed using terror
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
TRUE or FALSE: The South began to rebuild economically during Reconstruction.
TRUE--but still agricultural and behind the North
This group had the majority in Congress and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War
Radical Republicans
Amendment which defined who was a citizen of the United States
14th amendment
Laws that restricted the rights of African American citizens
Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws
TRUE or FALSE: African Americans were elected to Congress for the first time after Reconstruction ended
FALSE: African Americans were elected during Reconstruction but after it ended, were blocked from office
Laws passed to segregate and deny the rights of Black people to marry, own property, vote, etc.
Jim Crow Laws
TRUE or FALSE: Reconstruction ended racism in the USA.
FALSE!!! In some ways, Reconstruction made racism worse.