Presidents
This president was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
This amendment ended slavery
13th Amendment
Lincoln's plan for reconstruction involved getting what percentage of White men to swear loyalty to the Union.
10%
This labor system, involving many farmers sharing a plot of land, tied poor workers to a landowner by keeping them in debt
Sharecropping
After the Civil War, this group could now vote
African American Men
This person became president after Lincoln's death
Andrew Johnson
These laws discriminated against African Americans
Black Codes / Jim Crow Laws
Both Lincoln's and Johnson's reconstruction plans made heavy use of this in order to not punish most leaders of the Confederacy for treason
Pardons
Ku Klux Klan
This group terrorized African Americans to uphold white supremacy
What was the main goal of Reconstruction?
Readmit the former Confederate States back into the Union and rebuild Southern infrastructure
Andrew Johnson was impeached, but was not convicted based on how many Senate votes?
One
One of the Civil Rights Amendments passed in 1870. It provided universal male suffrage and was widely criticized by many women for not giving them the right to vote.
15th Amendment
This political group's plan for reconstruction focused on punishing the South and granting rights to African Americans
Radical Republicans
This was an insult towards a Northerner who moved to the South after the war to gain something
Carpetbagger
After the war, the South was put under this kind of law
Martial
This president was a war hero, but his administration became embroiled in scandals
Ulysses S Grant
One of the Civil Rights Amendments. It was passed in 1868 and granted all former slaves citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan most closely had this effect on Southern society
He allowed the South to return to the way it was before the war
This was an insult towards a Southerner who supported the Republican party and Reconstruction
Scalawag
How did Lincoln’s assassination affect Reconstruction efforts?
It derailed the process of Reconstruction by creating a political tug of war between Republicans and Andrew Johnson
This president ended reconstruction
Rutherford B Hayes
This court case said that discrimination was constitutional as long as it was "separate but equal"
Plessy v Fergusson
This plan, vetoed by Lincoln, required that a majority of Southern males take an oath of loyalty to the Union
Wade-Davis Bill
This man was a Radical Republican Representative from Pennsylvania famous for opposing president Andrew Johnson and president Abraham Lincoln. He was an important proponent of the Civil Rights Act.
Thaddeus Stevens
This was a direct effect of the Compromise of 1877
Troops leaving the South / Hayes wins election