Reconstruction Plans
In what order did the reconstruction plans occur?
Wartime - Presidential - Radical
What exactly did the 13th amendment do?
End slavery EXCEPT as punishment for a crime
Name 3 successes of the Freedmen's Bureau
Define the KKK and explain their goals and the methods they used to achieve them
It was a white supremacist terrorist group. its goals were to maintain white social and economic superiority and to undermine the Republican Party. They used violence and secrecy
Which president ended reconstruction?
Rutherford B Hayes
What exactly did the 14th amendment do?
Birthright citizenship, equal protection under the law
Name 3 failures of the Freedmen's Bureau
Land reparations was given back to confederates - failed to give land
Created courts but they were unfair
Underfunded and understaffed, attacked by the kkk
Left no lasting social programs after it shut down
What is the definition of lynching?
10% plan
Forty acres and a mule
Pardon most confederates but not the leaders
What exactly did the 15th amendment do?
Voting rights cannot be limited based on race
Define sharecropping and explain how it worked
When a person owns land, then let’s other people use the land in exchange for part of what was grown on it. The people also had to buy equipment with high interest rates, so at the end of every season they owed more money than they made. Sharecroppers got stuck in a cycle of debt they could not pay off. If they could not pay off debt, they had to remain on the land
What was the federal government's response to the KKK?
Passed the Ku Klux Klax Act which allowed them to prosecute hate crimes - successfully shut it down
Name any 3 parts of Presidential Reconstruction
Weaken Freedmen's Bureau
10% plan
Confederacy pays war debts
Give land back to Confederates
What was the main goal of Black Codes?
Limit Black economic opportunity
What SPECIFICALLY was the final decision in Plessy v Ferguson
Segregation is legal as long as it is separate but equal
Explain the facts of the case of Plessy v Ferguson (who sued, why)
**not the decision
Plessy was 1/8 black, intentionally got arrested for buying a first class white ticket on a train in Louisiana. Was a planned protest with the hope of bringing segregation to the Supreme Court
Name any 3 parts of Radical Reconstruction
Strengthen Freedmen's Bureau
Divide South into military districts
Require states to accept 14th and 15th amendments
What was the main goal of Jim Crow
Create segregation
List at least 4 methods of voter suppression
Literacy tests
Poll taxes
Grandfather clauses
White primaries
Good character clauses
Voter intimidation
List at least 2 method that were used to recreate slaver in the reconstruction era and explain HOW they recreated slavery
Prison system
Sharecropping
Black Codes
Jim Cros Laws