PLANS & POLITICS
Reconstruction is the period after this war.
What is the Civil War?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Former enslaved people were often called this after the Civil War.
What are freedmen?
He became president after Lincoln’s assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Supreme Court decision weakened Reconstruction by supporting segregation laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This president’s plan for Reconstruction was considered lenient toward the South.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment gave citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This organization helped formerly enslaved people with food, education, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This former Union general became president during Reconstruction.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The compromise that ended Reconstruction and resulted in the removal of federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This plan divided the South into military districts controlled by the Union Army.
What is Radical Reconstruction / Military Reconstruction Act?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Many freedmen worked under this system where they farmed land in exchange for a share of crops.
What is sharecropping?
He was a famous abolitionist and advocate for Radical Reconstruction.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
This group of Republicans wanted harsh punishment for the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
These laws were passed in Southern states to restrict African American rights after the war.
What are Black Codes?
These schools were established to educate formerly enslaved people in the South.
What are freedmen schools?
This civil rights leader was the first African American senator and ambassador during Reconstruction.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This group used violence and intimidation to suppress Black voters.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This system allowed Southern states to be readmitted once 10% of voters pledged loyalty to the Union.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
This constitutional principle ensures equal protection under the law.
What is equal protection clause?
This promise of “40 acres and a mule” was largely never fulfilled.
What is land redistribution to freed slaves?
This African American leader was a key voice in Reconstruction-era politics and education reform.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Reconstruction officially ended in this decade.
What are the 1870s (1877 specifically)?