Government Policies
The federal government agency helped advocate for former slaves in the South
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This person signed the Emancipation Proclamation Act during his presidency
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is the term describes Southern whites who supported Radical Reconstruction
What is the scalawags?
This Supreme Court decision upheld the legality of segregation in the South. This decision coined the phrase "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These people won enough seats in Congress to override any of President Johnson's vetoes.
What is the Radical Republicans?
The social movement and historical ideology that emerged among ex-Confederates after the American Civil War. It was a response to the trauma of defeat and a way to preserve the honor of the South.
What is the "lost cause"?
The bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government,
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This Amendment was ratified in 1870
What is the 15th Amendment?
This person was a lawyer, detested Andrew Johnson, and was a leader of the Radical Republicans.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
What is Carpetbaggers?
How did the Fourteenth Amendment change relations between the federal and state governments in the United States?
What is the shifting of the protection of citizens’ rights from the states to the federal government?
The amendment that banned states from restricting the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
What political party controlled the governments of nearly all the former Confederate states when they were readmitted to the Union
What is the Republican Party?
This year was when Georgia was readmitted to the Union, becoming the last state to rejoin the Union.
What is 1870?
This Reconstruction plan said a state could rejoin if 10% of its population swore an oath of loyalty
What is Lincoln's 10% plan?
14th Amendment was unsuccessful in guaranteeing equal rights to African Americans born in the United States? Why?
What is African-Americans still didn't have all the rights Whites had? Limited to Voting?
Who made up the great majority of Republican voters in the Southern states during Reconstruction.
What is the Republicans?
A political agreement that ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South
What is the Compromise of 1877?