Rebuilding the South
This was Lincoln’s plan to bring the South back into the Union quickly.
What is the 10 Percent Plan?
Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This southern Tennessee group opposed civil rights for African Americans.
Who was the Klu Klux Klan?
He was the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate in 1870.
Who was Hiram Revels?
Poll taxes and literacy tests were ment to keep this group of people from voting.
Who were Aftican Americans?
This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment ?
This Amendment gave African Americans the Right to Vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Southern white Democrats referred to Southern republicans as this.
What are Scalawags?
The Compromise of 1877 helped him become the 19th President of the United States.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
This group of elected people wanted the federal government to force change in the south.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This agency provided relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This was proposed by congress when they thought the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was going to be overturned.
What is the 14th Amendment?
These laws made it a federal crime to interfere with elections or to deny citizens equal protection under the law.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
This Senator and House Representative wrote a bill that was an alternative to Lincoln’s ten percent plan.
Who is Senator Benjamin Wade and Representative Henry Davis?
This group of people arrived in the United States between 1865 and 1873. They provided the Industrial south with a new pool of labor.
Who were immigrants ?
This is why Johnson (a democrat) was put on the Republican Presidential ticket with Lincoln in 1864.
What is to appeal to border states?
These laws divided the South into 5 military districts.
What were the Reconstruction Acts?
This act allowed former low ranking Confederates to serve in public office.
What the “General Amnesty Act of 1872”?
President Johnson fired him as secretary of war.
Who was Edwin Stanton ?
These two groups of people were snubbed by the 15th Amendment.
Who were women and Native Americans
By the end of 1865 all Southern states except this state had created new governments.
What is Texas?
This former New York governor ran against Ulysses S. Grant in the Election of 1868.
Who was Horatio Seymour?
As part of the effort to reverse the accomplishments of Reconstruction, southern governments use these to prevent African Americans from voting.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
He would have become President if Johnson was impeached and removed from office.
Who was Benjamin Wade?
The Freedman's bureau helped freedpeople and this group of people in the South after the Civil War?
Who are poor southerens?