Reconstruction Facts
Reconstruction Started in this year
1865
This type of reconstruction was more forgiving of the South
Presidential Reconstruction
Gave African American men the right to vote
15th
Completed in 1869 and connected East and West
Transcontinental Railroad
Reconstruction was primarily focused on this region of the country
The South
This this type of reconstruction, the formerly enslaved would receive citizenship.
Radical Reconstruction
Gave former slaves and anyone born in the United States citizenship
14th
Was Lincoln's VP
Andrew Johnson
Workers were held to the Land by debt
Sharecropping
This man was president during the first part of reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
Under this type of reconstruction, African American men would receive the right to vote and hold political office
Radical Reconstruction
Outlawed Slavery
13th
Served under Lincoln as a Civil War General
Grant
The law that blocked immigration from China
Chinese Exclusion Act
This political party opposed the President, and had different plans for reconstruction
The Republican Party
The Republican Party was connected with this type of reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
Assured all citizens would receive "Due Process" including African Americans
14th
Died in Ford's Theater
Lincoln
One way in which African Americans were prevented from voting
Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, KKK intimidation
This former top Union Civil War general became president after Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
This democratic party enforced "Black Codes" that often forced African Americans back into "slave like" conditions in this form of reconstruction
Presidential Reconstructon
Amendments 13, 14, and 15 were known as the:
Reconstruction Amendments
Ended Reconstruction by taking the troops out of the South
Hayes
Supreme Court case that ruled Segregation was Constitutional due to "Separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)