General Facts
12 years
What is the amount of time the reconstruction period lasted?
three amendments
What is the amount of amendments ratified during reconstruction?
1865
What was the year that presidential reconstruction started?
1865
What was the year the first Ku Klux Klan group was founded?
1867
What was the year that the Military Reconstruction Act was passed?
The American Civil War
What is the war that caused the reconstruction period?
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments
What are the names of the three amendments passed during reconstruction?
To ratify the 13th amendment
What was a requirement in President Andrew Johnson's plan for Presidential Reconstruction?
White Radical Republicans and African Americans
What were the two groups of people that the Klan directed violence towards?
To pass the 13th and 14th amendments
What was a requirement of the south to be reamitted to the union?
Andrew Johnson
What is the name of the president who started reconstruction?
To abolish slavery
What is the purpose of the 13th amendment?
Deeply racist
one of President Andrew Johnson's characteristics?
A group of confederate soldiers
Who are the people that founded the Ku Klux Klan?
Hold new elections
What was also a requirement of the south in order to be reamitted to the union?
The Democratic Party
What is the political party that most white southerners belonged to during reconstruction?
Granting African American men the right to vote
What was the purpose of the 15th amendment?
Restored power in white southern governments
What was an effect of President Andrew Johnson's presidential reconstruction plan?
Beatings, lynchings, arson, and voter intimidation
What were some of the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan?
the south being divided into five military districts
What was an effect of the Military Reconstruction Act?
March
What is the month when reconstruction ended?
December 6, 1865
What is the date that the 13th amendment was ratified?
Black Codes
What were laws passed by southern states during presidential reconstruction to restrict African American's freedom?
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Who was the first leader of the Klan?
to get southern sates to comply with reentry into the union
What was the main goal of the Military Reconstruction Act?