What best defines reconstruction?
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877,
Who were the 3 presidents during Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant
What were the three reconstruction plans?
Lincolns plan,Johnsons plan,and radical plan
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Banned slavery in the United States except for punishment of crimes.
This person proposed the 10% Plan.
President Lincoln
What Reconstruction plan was the harshest?
Reconstruction
the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
This person's reconstruction plan was primarily viewed as "Presidential Reconstruction."
President Andrew Johnson
What was Abraham Lincoln's 10 percent plan?
Lincoln's proposal offered lenient terms of pardon and amnesty to Confederates who swore allegiance to the United States.
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Defined voting rights for American citizens.
Who/what was Jim Crow?
What was Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
Did not provide major protections for Black Americans outside of the Amendments, allowed the South to have some power over themselves.
Fourteenth Amendment
gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws
Which group opposed Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
Congress
What made "congressional reconstruction" so harsh?
It Forced Southern States to follow the new amendments and a number of other punishments