Reconstruction Plans
This term describes the period after the Civil War when the U.S. government worked to rebuild the South and integrate freed slaves into society.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment gave all men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
States implemented these to stop African American Men from voting.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests.
The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to help newly freed African Americans by providing these three key services.
What are education, food, and legal assistance?
This U.S. general led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War and later became president during Reconstruction.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
This Reconstruction plan required only 10% of a Southern state's voters to swear loyalty before rejoining the Union.
What is Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan
The 13th Amendment ended slavery and involuntary servitude except...
What is as a punishment for a crime?
This allowed whites to bypass voting restrictions if their ancestors had voted before the Civil War.
What are Grandfather Clauses?
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in this year to intimidate Black citizens and their allies.
What is 1865?
This American President was opposed to most Reconstruction efforts.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Under Radical Reconstruction, Southern states had to ratify this amendment before being readmitted to the Union.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Congress opposed President Johnson’s lenient approach and instead passed this act, dividing the South into military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867
Some Black Codes forced African Americans into unfair labor contracts, a system similar to slavery known as this.
What is sharecropping?
This caused the Freedmen's Bureau to fail.
What are lack of funding and political support?
The leader of the Radical Republicans.
This Union General came up with the idea for the phrase "40 acres and a mule".
Who is William T. Sherman?
Other than Birthright Citizenship, the 14th Amendment also provided...
What is equal protection under the law?
What laws forced Orphaned Black children into unpaid labor?
What are apprenticeship laws?
The Enforcement Act of 1871, signed by President Grant, gave the federal government power to do this to suppress Klan violence.
What is use military force?
This African American politician served as a U.S. senator from Mississippi during Reconstruction.
Who is Hiram Revels
This agreement ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This law, passed in 1866, was the first to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Black Codes often required African Americans to sign yearly labor contracts. If they refused, they could be arrested under this charge?
What is vagrancy?
The Official Name of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands?
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?