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Rebuilding the South
Fight over Reconstruction
Laws and Amendments
Key people
End of reconstruction
100
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.
Reconstruction
100
"Radically" Opposed the South
Radical Republicans
100
This amendment granted citizenship
14th
100
President of the U.S. during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
100
He urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the war and reunite as Americans when some wanted to continue to fight
Robert E. Lee
200
Explain the state that the south was in after the Civil War...
Ruined, burned, broken (otherwise IN BAD SHAPE)
200
What group was created during Reconstruction in order to put fear into African Americans?
Ku Klux Klan
200
These laws divided the South into 5 districts, with a U.S. military commander in charge of each district.
Reconstruction Acts
200
Took over after Lincoln's Assassination
Andrew Johnson
200
Southerners who supported Reconstruction
Carpet Baggers
300
What was Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction called?
10% Plan
300
What are two examples of rights taken away from African Americans because of the Black Codes?
1. Sharecropping (work contracts) 2. Arresting African Americans
300
This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans.
Civil rights act of 1886
300
Used by the Radical Republicans to Impeach Johnson
Tenure of Office Act
300
Person in favor of freeing the slaves
Abolitionist
400
Who assassinated Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
400
Was Johnson official impeached? How
Johnson was not impeached, he avoided it by one vote.
400
15th Amendment
Gave African American men throughout the U.S. the right to vote.
400
President who promised to end "Reconstruction"
Rutherford B. Hayes
400
Official End of reconstruction
1877
500
North During the Civil war
Union
500
Laws put in place due to residual racism that still existed in the south, even after slavery was outlawed.
Jim Crow Laws
500
Constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery.
13th
500
American General of the Union during the Civil war who also became president.
U.S. Grant
500
Explain the Compromise of 1877
Federal Military removed from the South