Reconstruction Plans
This person's plan was the nicest to the Confederates
Who was Andrew Johnson
This amendment outlawed slavery?
What is the 13th amendment?
This is who fought the Northern states during the Civil War.
What are the Southern states?
Define freedmen
What is men and women who had once been slaves
When a president refuses to sign a bill, and it dies without becoming law.
what is pocket veto?
Lincoln offered this to most Southerners who swore loyalty to the Union, except for Confederate leaders.
What is amnesty?
This amendment gave black men voting rights.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This is the job most freedmen took on their former plantations after the Civil War
What is sharecropping?
define Reconstruction
What is the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
He became the President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
who is Andrew Johnson
President Johnson's plan required Southern states to ratify this amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This amendment gave black people citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment
This secret society used violence and intimidation to maintain white supremacy after the Civil War.
what is the KKK?
Define Freedman's Bureau
What is the United States government agency that helped freedmen and poor southern whites by providing them food, shelter, education, clothing, medicine, etc.
Who assassinated President Lincoln
What is John Wilkes Booth
The Radical Republicans started this organization that helped enforce the 14th Amendment and give freed slaves an education.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
These tests were designed to disenfranchise African Americans by assessing reading and writing skills as a requirement for voting.
This was the name of the new country the south created after they seceded
What was the Confederate States of America/ Confederacy?
Define Black Codes
What is Southern laws to limit the right of freedmen. Stopped blacks from gaining political, social, and economic power
This system trapped freedmen in a cycle of debt by paying them to farm land but taking most of their crops.
what is sharecropping?
What was the name of Lincoln's reconstruction plan and why did it have that name?
what is the 10 percent plan.
It's called the 10 percent plan because this plan said when 10 percent of the voters in a state had taken the oath, the state could form a new state government.
This Supreme Court Case determined that separate is equal.
What is Plessey v Ferguson
The document that was issued by President Lincoln that stated all slaves in the rebelling states were to be set free was known as the..
What is Emancipation Proclamation
Supreme Court case that set the precedent (tradition) that “separate” facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were “equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The admission of this state as a slave state in 1819 threatened to upset the balance between free and slave states in the Senate.
What is Missouri?