Reconstruction Facts
This plan, associated with Abraham Lincoln, required a percentage of a state’s voters to swear loyalty to the Union before readmission.
10% Plan
This president’s plan offered a quick restoration of Southern states with few requirements, angering Radical Republicans.
President Andrew Johnson
15th
These "payments" were required to vote and often used to disenfranchise poor African Americans and whites.
Poll Taxes
President who was assassinated in April of 1865
Abraham Lincoln
After acquiring these from Europeans, many Plains Native Americans relied on them for hunting, travel, and warfare.
Horses
This 1862 law granted 160 acres of free land to settlers willing to farm it for five years.
Homestead Act
This group of congressmen opposed the president, and had more inclusive plans for reconstruction
The "Radical" Republicans
Congressional Republicans pushed this plan, which divided the South into military districts and required new state constitutions in the south and ratification of the 14th Amendment.
Radical Reconstruction
Gave former slaves citizenship and guaranteed due process of law.
14th
This farming system kept freedmen, and at times poor whites, in cycles of debt by requiring them to give landlords a large share of their crops.
Sharecropping
This president was impeached by the House but acquitted by one vote in the Senate for violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Pres. Andrew Johnson
Native Americans of the Plains depended on this animal for food, tools, and clothing before it was nearly wiped out by settlers.
Buffalo or Bison
This 1887 law forced Native Americans onto individual plots, leading to massive loss of tribal lands.
The Dawes Act
During Reconstruction, Southern states had to guarantee this right to African American men as part of federal requirements for readmission.
15th Amendment
Derisive names given to people who helped with Reconstruction (Name Both)
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States
13th
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
As president, he supported Radical Reconstruction and enforced civil rights in the South, but his administration was marred by scandals.
Ulysses S. Grant
This federal department oversaw land, natural resources, and Native American affairs during westward expansion.
Department of the Interior
This showman popularized the “Wild West” through traveling exhibitions featuring cowboys, Native Americans, and sharpshooters.
Buffalo Bill Cody
This former civil war General became president after Johnson and oversaw most of the Radical Republican's version of reconstruction.
Pres. U.S. Grant
This bill placed the former Confederate states into five military districts; required them to draft new constitutions approved by all voters, including African Americans, and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
Military Reconstruction Act(s) of 1867
What is the "exception" to the 13th Amendment regarding "forced servitude"?
Except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
In the Jim Crow era, this system kept many African Americans trapped in poverty by forcing them to work off debts they could never repay.
Debt Peonage
A former enslaved person, he promoted vocational education for African Americans and believed economic progress would, over time, lead to civil rights.
Booker T. Washington
This Native American religious movement promised the return of the buffalo and the disappearance of white settlers.
The Ghost Dance
This general used harsh tactics, including destroying villages and resources, to subdue Native American tribes resisting U.S. expansion.
General Philip Sheridan
This term applied to Southern Democrats who regained political power after Reconstruction, aiming to restore white control, reduce Republican influence, and limit African American rights.
Redeemers
Which agreement made Rutherford B. Hayes president in exchange for removing federal troops from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877
Congress overrode Pres. Johnson's veto with this Act that was the first federal law to grant citizenship and basic rights to former slaves.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
Described as “slavery by another name,” this post-Reconstruction system let states profit by forcing prisoners, many arrested on minor charges, to work for private companies under brutal conditions.
Convict Leasing
He argued that African Americans should demand full political, civil, and social rights immediately, criticizing accommodationist approaches.
W.E.B. Du Bois
This term refers to the U.S. government’s strategies and laws designed to manage, control, and assimilate Native American tribes.
Indian Policy
Name any one of these Native American leaders who resisted U.S. Government policies and westward expansion.
(Lakota leader) Sitting Bull
(Oglala leader) Crazy Horse
(Nez Perce leader) Chief Josef
Final Jeopardy: Quotes
Take out a piece of paper. Put your team name on the sheet and everyone's first name on it as well.
Write down your wager and show it to me.
Match 2 people to the following quotes:
Quote 1:“I will fight no more forever.”
Quote 2: “The only good Indian I ever saw was a dead one.” (allegedly)
Quote 3: “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
Q1: Chief Josef
Q2: General Philip Sheridan
Q3: W.E.B. Du Bois