Vocab Victory
This word means the period from 1865 to 1877 when the U.S. worked to rebuild the South and reunite the nation.
Reconstruction
This 1865 amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
13th
This man was the 16th President of the United States (1861–1865).
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's plan was named for this percentage of 1860 voters who had to swear loyalty to the U.S.
10 Percent Plan
In this farming system, landless farmers worked land owned by others for a share of the crops, often trapping them in debt.
Sharecropping
This is the enforced separation of different racial groups in schools, housing, transportation, and public spaces.
Segregation
This 1870 amendment said the right to vote could not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th
This vice president became president after Lincoln's assassination and favored a lenient approach to Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
Lincoln wanted a quick and this kind of reunification, meaning it went easy on the South.
Lenient
This federal agency, created in 1865, built schools and provided food and medical care but was underfunded.
Freedmen's Bureau
This is the process of formally charging a public official with misconduct.
Impeachment
This 1868 amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
14th
This formerly enslaved man became a leading abolitionist and argued that freedom without rights was incomplete.
Frederick Douglass
This supreme court case declared segregation legal. Otherwise said as "Separate but Equal"
Plessy vs Ferguson
This secret white supremacist organization was founded during Reconstruction and used violence and intimidation.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
These were restrictive laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to limit the freedom and rights of African Americans.
Black Codes/ Jim Crow Laws
The 14th Amendment guaranteed all citizens this "under the law."
Equal Protection
This group in Congress wanted harsh treatment of the South and full citizenship rights and protections for freedpeople.
Radical Republicans
To enforce change, the Radical Republicans placed the South under these.
Military Districts
This agreement gave Republicans the presidency in exchange for withdrawing federal troops from the South.
Compromise of 1877
This law exempted a person from voting requirements, like literacy tests, if their grandfather had voted before 1867.
Grandfather Clause
After the 15th Amendment passed, Southern states used these three methods to keep Black men from voting.
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses
In 1870, this Mississippi minister and politician became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Hiram Revels
This disagreement between Lincoln's lenient vision and the Radical Republicans' harsher one shaped nearly every major decision of the era. Name what they disagreed about.
How Strict Reconstruction Should Be
The full promise of Reconstruction was not realized until this movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The Civil Rights Movement