Rebuilding the South
Reconstruction is the process of readmitting these former states to the Union after the Civil War.
What was the Confederacy?
These were laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
Guaranteed Citizens equal protection under the law.
What was the 14th Amendment?
The first African American in U.S. Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?
This was the most successful industrial development during Reconstruction.
What are textile mills?
Vice President who became president upon Lincoln's death
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This group of politicians wanted the government to force change in the South. Their leaders were Thaddius Stevens and Charles Sumner.
Who were Radical Republicans?
This Amendment was proposed in 1869, but did not go into effect until a year later.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This White Supremacy group was opposed to civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans. This group is also still active today.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
The "Old South"'s economy relied on this instead of Industry like the "New South".
What is cotton?
When 10 percent of voters in any states took an oath, the state would be accepted back into the Union. This was the name of that plan.
What was the Ten Percent Plan?
This war hero General became the new president after Johnson left office.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Riots and Violence occurred after this Amendment was ratified.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This person became the new U.S. President due to the Compromise of 1877.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
This word means the right to vote, commonly used to describe a minority's right to vote.
What is suffrage?
To help the South's poor and freedpeople, Congress created this in 1865.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Radical Republicans in Congress passed several of these in 1867, dividing the South into 5 military districts with a commander in control of each one.
What were Reconstruction Acts?
This Amendment gives African American Men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Redeemer governments in the South set this up to deny African Americans the vote.
What was poll tax?
2 million of these types of people provided labor in the North and West to rebuild their economy.
Who are immigrants?
This bill was supported by some citizens as opposed to the Ten Percent plan. It required southerners to ban slavery.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
This was the Secretary of War that was fired by President Johnson, leading to his impeachment.
Who was Edwin Stanton?
This Amendment says that States could not "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law".
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was allowed if "separate-but-equal" facilities were provided.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
These groups provide aide to workers and demand policies that protect them.
What are unions?