Amendments and Key Terms
Definition of Reconstruction (8.1)
What is the Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877?
The 4 presidents during Reconstruction (8.1 - 8.4)
Who are Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes?
The Three Reconstruction Plans (8.1)
What are Lincoln's 10% plan, Johnson's plan, and the radical Republicans plan?
Law to protect civil rights of African Americans (8.1)
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Effect or Consequence of the power struggle between Congress and Andrew Johnson (8.1)
What is the impeachment of Johnson?
The 13th Amendment (8.1)
What is the amendment that banned slavery in the United States except for punishment of crimes?
This person proposed the 10% Plan (8.1)
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Harshest Reconstruction plan (8.1)
Group that helped African Americans by providing resources to them after the Civil War (8.1)
What are the Freedman's Bureau
Reason why reconstruction ended after the Civil War (8.3)
What is the Compromise of 1876, which effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats' promises to protect civil and political rights of blacks were not kept?
Purpose of Reconstruction when it came to the former Confederate states (8.1)
What is the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War?
This person's reconstruction plan was primarily viewed as "Presidential Reconstruction."
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Explanation of Abraham Lincoln's 10 percent plan (8.1)
What is Lincoln's proposal offered lenient terms of pardon and amnesty to Confederates who swore allegiance to the United States?
Explanation of the Wade-Davis Bill (8.1)
What is Congress' bill requiring a majority of a state's prewar voters to swear loyalty to the Union to rejoin the Union as well as a demand for protections of African Americans?
Three major issues of Reconstruction (8.1)
What are the restoration of the Union, transformation of southern society, and enactment of progressive legislation favoring the rights of freed African Americans?
The 15th Amendment (8.1)
What is the amendment that defined voting rights for African Americans?
Explanation of Jim Crow (8.3)
What is a caricature that was used to depict racist laws on Black Americans?
Explanation of Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction (8.1)
What is a plan that did not provide major protections for Black Americans outside of the Amendments, allowed the South to have some power over themselves?
Definition of the Black Codes (8.1)
Reason given for what was successful about Reconstruction (8.3)
What is that Reconstruction restored the United States as a unified nation?
The 14th Amendment (8.1)
What is the amendment that gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws?
The group that opposed Johnson's Reconstruction plan (8.1)
What is Congress?
Reason why "congressional reconstruction" was so harsh (8.1)
Two Examples of Black Codes (8.1)
Two Reasons given for the failure of the Reconstruction era (8.3)
What is are that the economy in the South was not rebuilt and the rights of African Americans were not protected?