Vocab
What best defines reconstruction?
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877,
The President who assumed the presidency after Lincoln's assassination.
Who was Andrew Johnson
What were the three reconstruction approaches?
Reconciliation, Maintain Racial Hierarchy, and Radical Reconstruction
The compromise in the original Constitution that counted enslaved people as three fifths of a person for purposes of representation in Congress.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
What does the word reconstruction mean?
What is Rebuild
The President who focused on giving Amnesty to Confederate rebels.
Who was Andrew Johnson
The Amendment that prohibited slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The political party represented by Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the Republican Party?
What was the reconstruction approach that focused on readmitting Confederate states to the Union
What is Reconciliation
The first African American elected to the U.S. Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels
This federal agency was set up to help former slaves start new lives as free people.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
The Constitutional Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The political party that represented the interests of the Southern Confederate States.
What is the Democratic Party?
laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers
What are Black Codes
The head of the Freedman's Bureau who helped set up schools and distribute resources to former slaves on St. Catherine's Island, GA.
Who was Tunis Campbell?
This policy used the Union Army to enforce Reconstruction laws in the South.
The Amendment that made all person born in the U.S., and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, citizens of the United States.
The President who withdrew Union troops from the Confederate states.
Rutherford B. Hayes
This Amendment gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws
What is the Fourteenth Amendment
The longest serving African American politician in the U.S Congress during Reconstruction.
Who is Joseph Rainey?
When Hayes ordered Union troops to withdraw from the Confederate states, this type of rule was reestablished in the South.
The principle from the Declaration of Independence inscribed in the Constitution in the 14th Amendment.
Under the Wade-Davis Act, 50% of Southern population of white men had to say this for a Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.