Reconstruction Policies
This president's "10 percent" Reconstruction plan allowed for the reintegration of Southern states when 10 percent of voters swore allegiance to the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This agency was established in 1865 to aid freed slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, and education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Abolitionist leader advocating for Black rights, including economic empowerment. Gained notoriety by writing the North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass.
This 1866 act, passed over Johnson's veto, conferred civil rights on freedmen and aimed to combat the Black Codes.
What is the Civil Rights Bill?
This amendment, ratified in 1870, protected voting rights for African American males.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This president continued Lincoln's approach but faced conflict with Congress over his lenient Reconstruction policies.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This radical Republican from Pennsylvania was a leading figure on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction and advocated for black suffrage.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
This amendment, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the United States.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This state, one of the last to rejoin the Union, was readmitted in 1870 after ratifying the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
What is Georgia?
This act, passed in 1867, divided the South into five military districts and imposed strict conditions for readmission to the Union.
What is the Reconstruction Act?
Created in 1863 to change the tone of the war.
What is Emancipation Proclamation.
This actor and Confederate sympathizer assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theater in 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Republicans in Congress who wanted a quick restoration of the North and the South and protection for former slaves.
What are the Moderate Republicans.
These so-called “qualifications” for voting, adopted by Southern states after Reconstruction, used confusing questions and arbitrary grading to suppress African American political participation while avoiding direct violation of the 15th Amendment.
What are literacy tests.
Federal troops withdrawn from the South, effectively ending federal protection for Black civil rights, financial assistance given to the South, and the development of railroads.
What is the Compromise of 1877
This group of Southern laws aimed to regulate the lives of freedmen, limiting their rights and imposing penalties for breaking labor contracts.
What are the Black Codes?
President #18 and former war hero.
Who is Ulysses Grant.
This radical group believed that the South should undergo significant social changes, including the protection of black rights by federal power.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This voting rule allowed men to bypass literacy tests and poll taxes if their ancestors had voted before the Civil War, effectively preserving white political power while excluding formerly enslaved African Americans during Reconstruction.
What is the grandfather clause.
This 1867 law required the president to seek Senate approval before removing appointed officials, leading to Johnson's impeachment.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
This organization, founded in Tennessee in 1866, used intimidation and violence to oppose Reconstruction and suppress black political participation.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This man made an appearance during Reconstruction after a brutal beating in the lead up to the Civil War.
Who is Charles Sumner.
This state, readmitted to Congress in 1866 after ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment, avoided military Reconstruction.
What is Tennessee?
As a result of the Compromise of 1877, the country will enter into a new time period which was dominated by segregation as a result of these laws?
What are Jim Crow Laws.