Reconstruction plans
This Amendment was part of the Reconstruction plan of 1866
The 14th Amendment
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
This government agency helped formerly enslaved people find food, jobs, and education.
Freedmen's Bureau
This secret organization used violence to intimidate African-Americans.
Ku Klux Klan
These meetings allowed multiracial groups to rewrite Southern state constitutions.
Constitutional Conventions
This group believed Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan was too lenient on the South.
Radical Republicans
This amendment granted African-American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
This farming system often kept African-Americans in debt to landowners.
Violence like that experienced by Abram Colby was meant to stop African-Americans from doing this.
Voting
African-Americans gained this political ability in many Southern states during Reconstruction.
Right to Vote
This amendment required Southern states to grant citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
14th Amendment
These three amendments together are known as this group of amendments.
Reconstruction Amendments
These laws were passed in Southern states to restrict the rights of African-Americans.
Black Codes
White Southerners used threats and violence to influence African-American political power.
Intimidation
African-American men were elected to serve in this national lawmaking body
Congress
Congress divided the South into military districts to ensure states followed Reconstruction rules.
Reconstruction Districts
This amendment made formerly enslaved people citizens of the United States.
14th Amendment
This system allowed plantation owners to maintain cheap labor after slavery ended.
Sharecropping
After federal troops left the South in 1877, many states passed laws to remove African-American rights called this.
Black Codes
Literacy tests and poll taxes were used to do this to African-American voters.
disenfranchise (or take away voting rights)
This president was impeached after clashing with Congress over Reconstruction policies.
Andrew Johnson
This group argued African-Americans deserved equal political rights as whites.
Radical Republicans
These new public institutions were created during Reconstruction to educate African-American children.
Public Schools
This event in 1877 effectively ended Reconstruction.
Removal of Federal Troops from the South
This compromise following the election of 1876 led to the removal of federal troops from the South.
Compromise of 1877