Vocabulary
Time period between 1865 and 1877 where the United States was rebuilt
This Reconstruction plan had 3 parts and was also known as the "10 Percent Plan"
What was Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?
To amend something means to...
What is to change something?
This 16th President started Reconstruction during the Civil War in 1863
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
As a result of the election of 1876, this "deal" was put into place to give democrats some incentives.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
A set of discriminatory laws created to limit the freedoms of African Americans in individual states
What are the Black Codes?
This Reconstruction plan gave each state the right to determine what to do about freed people
What is Andrew Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction Plan?
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery
What is the thirteenth amendment?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This Reconstruction farming system was designed to rent land to share owners from land owners in exchange for a percentage of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
A US government agency created to assist freedmen in the south by providing food, clothing, medical aid, etc.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This Reconstruction plan resulted in the creation of the Wade-Davis bill which was ultimately vetoed by President Lincoln
What is the Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan?
This constitutional amendment said that the right to vote would not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
What is the fifteenth amendment?
This 17th President was almost impeached during his term in office
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This term refers to a white southerner who joined with northern Republicans during Reconstruction.
What is a scalawag?
A type of Black Code that prevented anyone from paying African Americans more than what they were already being paid by someone else.
What are Anti-Enticement Laws?
This Reconstruction plan called for southerners to be punished for their behaviors towards African Americans and any continued fighting or support of Confederate ideals
What is The Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan?
This amendment provided citizenship rights to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the fourteenth amendment?
This 18th President served two terms in office during the Reconstruction era
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The term to describe a person from the northern states who went to the south after the Civil War to reform the south.
What is a carpetbagger?
A type of Black Code that resulted in consequences for African Americans if they did not have a job or a permanent residence (home)
What are Vagrancy Laws?
This Reconstruction plan allowed southerners to be pardoned if the pledged loyalty to the union; and if wealthy landowners and officers applied to be pardoned by the President
What is Andrew Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction plan?
The Fourteenth Amendment is divided into three clauses. Those clauses are...
What are the citizenship clause, due process clause and equal protection clause?
This 19th President was elected in 1876 after a special commission was appointed to investigate the election process/results.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
He was the first African American to serve in the United States senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?