Reconstruction Plans
What was Lincoln's plan called?
10% plan
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th amendment
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
A government agency that provided food, education, and aid
What was the KKK?
Hate group commonly terrorizing Freedmen
What event marked the end of reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
What percentage of voters had to take a loyalty oath under Lincoln's plan?
10%
What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?
Citizenship & equal protections for people born in US
What did the Black Codes aim to do?
Restrict freedoms and rights of African Americans
What were Jim Crow laws?
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South
What was the compromise of 1877?
Hayes became president, in exchange for withdrawl of troops from the South
How did the Wade-Davis Bill differ from Lincoln’s plan?
It required 50%, not 10%
What did the 15th amendment do?
It gave Black men the right to vote
What type of work did most freedmen do during Reconstruction?
Sharecropping/tenant farming
What was the Ku Klux Klan’s main goal during Reconstruction?
To terrorize African Americans and stop them from exercising their rights
What president was in power because of the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
What was Andrew Johnson’s approach to Reconstruction?
He offered more pardons and allowed Southern states to rejoin more quickly
What was the Wade-Davis bill?
Strict proposed congressional reconstruction plan
What was sharecropping, and how did it affect freedmen?
A system where freedmen farmed land in exchange for a share of the crops, often leading back to debt and poverty
Whose story gave insight into what Reconstruction was like?
Fountain Hughes
How did the end of Reconstruction affect African Americans?
Loss of political power, civil rights, and increased segregation and violence
Why did Congress reject Johnson’s plan?
It allowed Confederate leaders back into power, and didn’t protect the rights of freedmen
How did Southern states try to get around the 15th Amendment?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses
How did the federal government try to protect freedmen?
Military occupation of the South, amendments, and the Freedmen’s Bureau
Ulysses S. Grant
What were the long-term effects of Reconstruction?
Laid the groundwork for civil rights but failed to achieve lasting equality for African Americans