After the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
This President created the 10% Plan.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment abolished slavery.
This organization helped freedmen with food, education, and medical care.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This disputed election led directly to the end of Reconstruction.
What is the election of 1876?
What is about 4 million?
The main goal of Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan was this.
What is quick reunification of the nation?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th?
African American men gained this important political right during Reconstruction.
What is the right to vote?
This agreement ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Name one major problem the South faced after the Civil War.
What is economic collapse or destruction of cities
This president took over after Lincoln’s assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment protected voting rights regardless of race.
What is the 15th?
These were used to restrict African Americans access to voting during Reconstruction.
What are Poll Taxes & Literacy Tests?
What happened when federal troops were withdrawn from the South?
Southern Democrats regained control
This group was not readmitted to the Union through Lincolns plan for reconstruction.
Who are Confederate Leaders?
This group in Congress wanted to punish the South and protect freedmen.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Why did Congress require Southern states to ratify (approve) the 14th Amendment?
To protect freedmen’s rights / regain representation
Sharecropping often trapped freedmen in this situation.
What is debt/poverty?
These laws enforced segregation after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This group needed jobs, land, education, & legal protection after the war.
Who are Freedman (former slaves)
These acts divided the South into military districts.
What were the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
These restricted the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction.
What were the Black Codes?
Name one way African Americans built community during Reconstruction.
Churches / schools / families / political organizations
Although Reconstruction ended in 1877, these amendments remained in the Constitution and were later used to fight segregation.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?