Presidential Reconstruction
Who was in charge of Presidential Reconstruction?
The President, Lincoln/ Johnson.
Who was in charge on Congressional Reconstruction?
Congress.
Which three amendments make up the "Reconstruction Amendments"?
13th, 14th, and 15th.
Who was targeted by the Black Codes?
Black people in the South.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
A Court Case.
The ten percent plan is?
Lincoln's plan was to have 10% of a southern state's voting population take an oath to America before the state was allowed back.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
They were the people in Congress who pushed for equal rights for blacks and whites and for Congressional Reconstruction.
Who pushed for the Reconstruction Amendments?
The Radical Republicans.
What is sharecropping?
Former slaves worked on plantations and gave half of their crops to the owner. This caused former slaves to go into debt.
Why was Homer Plessy asked to break the law?
Because he looked white but was 1/8th Black.
What was in both Lincoln and Johnsons plan for Reconstruction?
Slavery was outlawed.
When did Reconstruction End?
1877.
What was the 13th Amendment?
A constitutional ban on slavery.
What are some ways that Southern states tried to stop Blacks from voting?
Poll tax, literacy tests, fear, the KKK.
Did Plessy win the case when it went to the US Supreme Court?
No, the court ruled against Plessy 7-1.
President Johnson wanted each confederate state to do what?
Pay their war debts.
Why did Congress take charge of Reconstruction?
Congress saw that Presidential Reconstruction was not making any changes to how the South was before the war.
What was the 14th Amendment?
Citizenship and equal protection for those born or naturalized in the United States.
what is something that a black person couldn't do according to the Black Codes?
Own land, have meetings after dark, own a gun, marry a white person, and be on a jury.
the lawyer representing Plessy said the Separate Car Act violated what amendment?
The 14th amendment (Equal protection and rights under the law)
After Lincoln died and Johnson took over as president, what did Johnson do to get impeached?
Johnson was impeached since he fired a cabinet member who was recently appointed. But this was a cover since was against helping former slaves and cut funding for the Freedmen's Bureau.
Why did Reconstruction come to an end?
The compromise that gave President Hayes the election then had Hayes pull federal troops out of the South.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Can't prohibit eligible voters from voting.
Black Codes would eventually be replaced by what?
Jim Crow laws.
Why is Plessy v Ferguson so important to American History?
It legally upheld segregation for the next 50-60 years. giving us the term "Separate but Equal"