Plans
President Abrahams plan for readmitting southern states before the war even ended. It offered southerns amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal act supporting the rebellion. To receive amnesty, southerners had to do two things: (1) They had to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States. (2) They also had to agree that slavery was illegal.
10% Plan
This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the United States .
13th
The forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places
segregation
Southern Democrats called Southern Republicans this?
Scalawags
Landowners provided the land, tools, and supplies, and people provided the labor.
Sharecropping
The process of readmitting the Confederate states to the Union, lasted from 1865 to 1877.
Reconstruction
It defined all people born or naturalized within the U.S., except Native Americans, as citizens,
It guaranteed citizens the equal protection of the laws.
It said that states could not “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
It banned many former Confederate officials from holding state or federal offices.
It made state laws subject to federal court review.
14th
Reading test people had to pass to vote
Literacy Test
They took a harsher stance, they wanted the federal government to force change in the south.
Radical Republicans
Democrats agreed to accept Haye’s presidential victory, in return, they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the South.
Compromise of 1877
His plan was similar to President Lincolns, however he decided that wealthy Southerner’s and former Confederate officials needed a presidential pardon.
Andrew Johnson
Gave African American men the right to vote.
15th
Special tax people had to pay before they could vote.
Poll Tax
An agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South,
Freedmen's Bureau
The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
Impeachment
(1) They had to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States. (2) They also had to agree that slavery was illegal.
Which Amendment defined all citizens as born or naturalized in the U.S. except Native Americans?
14th
Secret society opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage ,for African Americans. The Klan used violence and terror against African Americans.
Klu Klux Klan or KKK
Vice President who was sworn in to office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Reconstruction had now become his responsibility.
Andrew Johnson
This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Wade-Davis Bill
This is Mrs. Boatwright's 1st name.
Katelyn
Laws divided the south into 5 districts. A U.S. military commander controlled each district.
Reconstruction Acts
American politician who was born free in North Carolina and went to college in Illinois. In 1870, he became the first African American in the U.S. Senate.
Hiram Revels
Southern states soon passed these laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
Black Codes