Presidential Reconstruction
President Johnson supported this part of the country by the way he ran his Reconstruction Plan.
What is the South?
This group of people emerged that had the goal to make sure freedmen were made citizens with equal rights as a white man.
What is a radical republican?
This amendment states that nobody can lose their ability to vote based on the color of their skin.
What is the 15th amendment?
This word that means forgiveness came into play when the act that shares this name allowed Confederates to hold government positions again.
What is amnesty?
Many of these were closed in the South that the Freedmens Bureau opened because of the amount of money it caused to keep them open.
What are schools?
This Amendment officially ended slavery among the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment granted Citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
In the Election of 1868, African Americans helped this republican Civil War general to become president even though Horatio Seymour, the democratic nominee won a majority of white votes.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These acts tried to combat violence against African Americans who were trying to vote by jailing those who threatened or attempted to attack those who were voting for the republican party.
What are the enforcement acts?
This is the tax that stopped many African Americans from voting but was deemed okay because it could stop anyone from voting.
This was the program created by Congress that helped newly freedmen get jobs, houses, land, and proper education.
What is the Freedmens Bureau?
This act was created by Congress that gave African Americans the ability to vote, have a role in Congress, and a citizen of the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This is the name that Southern Democrats gave White Republicans who voted republican or to support African American rights.
What is a scalawag or a traitor?
This democratic nominee in the Election of 1876 won the Popular Vote but was one electoral vote away from winning the election.
Who is Samuel J. Tilden?
This is the nickname for laws that pushed Segregation or created different places where whites and blacks had to be separate.
What is the Jim Crow laws?
President Johnson required southern states to ratify the 13th amendment, forgive military debts, create a new state government and constitution and this action that caused the Civil War.
What is leaving the United States or saying leaving the Union was a bad idea?
This is the amount of votes that Congress were not able to get in order to actually impeach or kick out President Johnson for continuously vetoing their laws that would support the Union.
What is one?
What is three?
Freedmen, White Southerners who opposed the Civil War, and Northerners who moved to the South.
In the Compromise of 1876, Hayes was allowed to become president as long as his first act of president was to remove this from the South that officially ended Reconstruction.
What are troops or military?
This clause said that anyones male decendents who could vote on January 1st 1867, could vote which mainly only impacted African Americans
What is grandfather clause?
The goal of these laws were to trap freedmen into a form of enslavement such as only having one job, not being able to choose a new job if a better one came, and getting jailed if unemployed.
What is the black codes?
This act put troops in the south to make sure new state governments that were loyal to the Union were created and followed and former Confederates were not able to vote.
What is the military reconstruction act?
This is the nickname for a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War who voted like a Northerner.
What is a carpetbagger?
This republican nominee was awarded the Presidency in the 1876 election after being given 20 electoral votes that were in dispute.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
Many African Americans thought the laws put to limit people from voting were unconstitutional but Congress said that the laws didnt violate this amendment.
What is the 15th amendment?