Reconstruction Facts
Reconstruction was primarily focused on this region of the country
The South
Reconstruction Started in this year
1865
Gave all citizens the right to vote
15th
1860
The first African American to serve as a senator.
Hiram Revels
This political party opposed the president, and had more inclusive plans for reconstruction
The Republican Party
Secret Society formed in the south after Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Gave former slaves citizenship
14th
Lincoln's VP and member of opposite party
Andrew Johnson
Mystery Document- Who is the author?
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”
Fredrick Douglass
Lincoln famously signed this into law in 1863
Emancipation Proclamation
Government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves.
Freedmen's Bureau
Outlawed Slavery
13th
Served under Lincoln as a Civil War General
Grant
Referring to Southerners who cooperated with military reconstruction and the Radical Republican's vision for the South.
Scalawags
An informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 election
Compromise of 1877
Assured all citizens would receive "Due Process" including African Americans
14th
Became President (thus ending Reconstruction in the South.)
Rutherford B. Hayes
This refers to Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War. They were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain.
Carpetbaggers
This system had a farmer 'rent' land from another and kept them in debt.
Sharecropping
If you are convicted of a crime you may coerced into completing some sort of work (including manual labor)
13th Amendment
Andrew Johnson's violation of the ____ led to him being the first President to be impeached.
Tenure of Office Act