Reconstruction 1
The first phase of Reconstruction
What is Presidential Reconstruction
Two sets of laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen. These Laws were meant to slow down the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What are Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes?
The second phase of Reconstruction
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
The name for Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction.
What are Carpet Baggers?
This amendment abolished Slavery in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
This government agency was created to assist former slaves with their new lives in America. They helped with education, jobs, medical treatment, legal assistance, etc.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This era was a time in which the United States needed to be reunited after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
Southern states attempt to limit the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What are Jim Crow laws?
What is the passage of black codes in the South?
He was appointed President after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as that of slavery in this system.
What is debt peonage?
This Amendment granted citizenship to all men and women born or naturalized in the US.
What is a the 14th Amendment?
The main accomplishment of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is providing aid and education to emancipated slaves?
This Civil War General became president after Andrew Johnson.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
Plessy v. Ferguson set this president.
What is separate but equal? AKA racial segregation
This Amendment gave all men the right to vote.
What is 15th Amendment?
The passing of this amendment caused an increase in the number of African Americans who were elected into public office.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This was the name for Southerners that assisted the North during Reconstruction.
What are Scalawags?