Reconstruction Plans
This Reconstruction plan placed the harshest demands on the South
The Wade-Davis Bill
What abolished slavery in the United States?
The 13th Amendment
What was the greatest success of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Education
Who became president after Lincoln’s assassination?
Andrew Johnson
What amendment finally guaranteed equal protection, though it was often ignored in practice?
14th Amendment
What percentage of people did Lincoln want to pledge loyalty to the Union?
10%
What guaranteed voting rights regardless of race?
15th Amendment
Which group most supported schools for freedmen?
This man violated the Tenure of Office Act and clashed with Radical Republicans.
Andrew Johnson
This event transformed the federal government by giving it more power than the states.
The Civil War
What was Ulysses S. Grant’s approach to Reconstruction?
He supported the extension of the vote to African Americans.
What granted citizenship and equal protection under the law?
14th Amendment
These were Northerners accused of trying to profit in the South.
Carpetbaggers
What secret society formed to intimidate African Americans and Republican leaders in the South?
Ku Klux Klan
How did Reconstruction change Southern politics in the short term?
African Americans briefly held office and voted in large numbers.
This was the system where slaves were to work in the fields and earn a bit of the output.
Sharecropping
What law helped fund construction of a transcontinental railroad?
The Pacific Railroad Act
What system of farming replaced slavery but often trapped freedmen in debt?
Sharecropping
What two voting restrictions emerged after Reconstruction to limit African American political power?
Poll taxes & literacy tests
This concept did not secure lasting protections for African Americans; segregation followed.
Reconstruction
What event ended Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877
What act provided free land to settlers moving west during the war?
The Homestead Act
These were southern whites who supported Reconstruction.
Scalawags
These were laws restricting African Americans’ rights, resembling slavery.
Black Codes
What nickname did Redeemers use to describe their governments after 1877?
"Home Rule" Governments