Words I should know
13th amendment
Abolished slavery
President that started Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
What is impeachment?
Charge of misconduct or wrongdoing when in office
What was Lincoln's plan for reconstruction called?
10% plan
Who was elected president after Andrew Johnson?
Ulysses S Grant
15th amendment
AA right to vote
This president won the election of 1876
Rutherford B Hayes
Who were the radical republicans?
Supported African American rights
Wanted to punish south for the war
Why was Johnson's plan for reconstructive ineffective?
Took it easy on south
allowed Black codes eliminated Freedman's Bureau
What are black codes?
Laws in South that allowed for African American segregation
Jim Crow Laws
enforced segregation
What did the KKK do?
terrorize African Americans
burn churches. buildings
Plessy vs Ferguson stated:
separate but equal is okay
Who did the Freedman's Buraeu help?
Poor whites and blacks
How did newly freed slaves improve their situation?
Voted
Married
Sought family across the country
created schools
Volunteered
became leaders in community
carpetbagger
Northerner who moved to South to make money
This president tried to eliminate the Freedman's Bureau and allow Black codes.
Andrew Johnson
What was the Panic of 1873?
Stock Market crash that lead to a nationwide depression
Congress' plan for reconstruction was to pass these amendments.
14th and 15th amendments (not the 13th!)
What were 4 things the Freedman's Bureau did?
gave food, money, legal advice, health care, clothes,
created schools
sharecropping & tenant farming
Sharecropping- rented land for a share of the crops
tenant farming- rented the land for cash
Who won the popular vote in 1876?
Samuel Tilden
Name 5 things that needed to be reconstructed after the Civil War.
cities
countryside
relationship between North and South
financial structure
economy
transportation system
political institutions
Congress passed the Reconstruction Act that did this:
put Northern troops in the South
how did tenant farming continue "slavery" in the South?
Southerners wanted to maintain Plantation system.
Tenant farming involved higher rents that could not be paid.
Farmers went into debt and had to work off their debt.
Working for free = slavery