Reconstruction Plans
Who created the 10% Plan to reunite the Union quickly?
Abraham Lincoln
What amendment ended slavery in the U.S.?
13th Amendment
What was the system where freedmen worked land for a share of the crops?
Sharecropping
What secret group used violence to keep African Americans from voting?
Ku Klux Klan
What does the word Reconstruction mean?
Rebuilding and reuniting the United States after the Civil War.
What was President Johnson’s main goal for Reconstruction?
To bring Southern states back easily, but he allowed Black Codes.
What amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.?
14th Amendment
What were laws that restricted African Americans’ freedom after the Civil War?
Black Codes
What were laws that kept Black and white citizens separate in public places?
Jim Crow Laws
What was one lasting success of Reconstruction for African Americans?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments gave freedom, citizenship, and voting rights.
What group wanted to punish the South and protect African American rights?
Radical Republicans
What amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
Why did sharecropping keep many freedmen poor?
They had to borrow supplies and stayed in debt to landowners.
What was the name of the court case that legalized segregation?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was one major failure of Reconstruction?
Black Codes and Jim Crow laws
How was the South divided under Radical Reconstruction?
Into 5 military districts
What government agency helped freedmen adjust to freedom by providing food, schools, and jobs?
Freedmen’s Bureau
What was one goal of African Americans after the Civil War?
To own land, get education, or vote.
What phrase came from the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling?
“Separate but Equal”
How did life change for African Americans after Reconstruction ended?
Many lost their new rights as segregation and unfair laws (Jim Crow) spread.
Why did Congress (Radical Repulicans) want a harsher Reconstruction plan than Lincoln’s?
They thought the South should be punished and Black rights protected.
Even after the 15th Amendment, why was it still hard for African Americans to vote in the South?
Because of poll taxes, literacy tests, and violence that kept them from voting.
What organization or people helped African Americans get an education?
Freedmen’s Bureau
How did Southerners try to stop Black men from voting besides violence?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses
How did Reconstruction change the United States in the long run?
It ended slavery and expanded rights, but it also left behind segregation and inequality that lasted for many years.