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The period after the Civil War (1865-1877) when the Southern United States was rebuilt and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
Explain Johnsons Reconstruction Plan
Laws passed by Southern states restricting the rights and freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War.
Black Codes
Lincoln’s Plan
A faction of American politicians within the Republican Party during the late 19th century who advocated for the immediate, complete, and permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise.
Radical Republicans
Why were Oscar Dunn and P.B.S. Pinchback notable leaders during the Reconstruction Era?
They were Black politicians elected to public office from Southern states.
Rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens, regardless of race or other differences, such as the right to vote, the right to equal treatment, and the right to speak freely.
Civil Rights
A system where a farmer rents land to plant crops. These type of farmers usually owned their own tools and paid rent in cash
Tenant Farming
A U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the South after the Civil War
Freedmen’s Bureau
A system where a tenant farmer gives a part of each crop as rent to the landowner. These farmers paid a share of their crops to the landowner.
Sharecropping
A law that banned racial discrimination in public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
An agreement that resolved the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Reconstruction.The withdrawal of federal troops from the South. Samuel J. Tilden won but Rutherford B. Hayes became president through this.
Compromise of 1877
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted in 1865 that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.
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State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Jim Crow Laws
The denial of the right to vote.
Disenfranchisement
What was the primary driving force behind the changes made to the Louisiana Constitution during the Reconstruction Era?
New amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the national focus on civil rights.
A secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other racial and ethnic groups.
KKK
The plan where they wanted to quickly reintegrate Southern states into the Union. This plan required only 10% of voters to swear loyalty to the Union
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted in 1868 that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S., including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws.”
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What are the key difference between Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan and the Radical Republican Plan for Reconstruction?
Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan required only 10% of voters to swear loyalty to the Union, compared to the Radical Republicans’ demand for a majority
A violent event in which a white supremacist group attacked African Americans in Colfax, Louisiana, killing dozens.
Colfax Massacre
What was a major difference between tenant farming and sharecropping during the postwar South?
Tenant farmers usually owned their own tools and paid rent in cash, while sharecroppers paid a share of their crops to the landowner.
(in the US) a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
Carpet Baggers
a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation
Scalawags
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted in 1870 that prohibited states from denying voting rights to citizens based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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