Politics & Policies
This amendment banned slavery and involuntary servitude, with the exception that it could be used as a punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment
Legislative act used to readmit southern states
The Reconstruction Act
Terrorist groups like this one used violence to intimidate African Americans and white Republicans.
Ku Klux Klan
What year did Lincoln become president?
What year was he assassinated?
Who assassinated him?
1860 - 1865 - John Wilksbooth
What was used to control and suppress the voters in the south.
Political Violence
It gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the United States.
14th Amendment
Laws that restrict the freedoms of African Americans in the south?
Black Codes & Jim Crow Laws
In one word, describe Lincolns and Johnson plans
Lenient
The final two suffrage amendments that eventually give everyone the right to vote regardless of race and gender.
15th & 19th
Name the 4 presidents involved in reconstruction, in order
Limcoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes
This organization was created in 1865 to help former slaves with education and resources.
Freedmen’s Bureau?
This group in Congress pushed for harsher Reconstruction policies in the South.
Radical Republicans?
This act divided the South into five military districts and forced the southern governments to adopt new constitutions.
Reconstruction Act of 1867
This deal ended Reconstruction and led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
Compromise of 1877
Name three ways in which America replaced slave labor?
convict leasing system (Prison Labor), Tenant Farming, Sharecropping, Paid Labor, Indentured Labor
Which of the reconstruction presidents worked best with congress
Ulysses S. Grant
This plan proposed much harsher punishment for Southern states than Lincoln’s.
Wade-Davis Bill
The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) established this doctrine, which allows legal segregation.
“separate but equal”
Prohibited groups of people from publicly banding together with the intention of violating citizens’ constitutional rights.
Enforcement Act
Why was President Johnson impeached
Resistance to Congressional Reconstruction, unjustly dismissal appointed officials