Vocab
abolishes slavery
Who were the 2 presidents during Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
What were the three reconstruction plans?
10%, Presidential, Congressional
Who won the Civil War?
Reconstruction
the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
Radical Republicans
What Reconstruction plan was the harshest?
What was one of the failures of the reconstruction era?
rights of African Americans were not protected.
Black Codes:
laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers
What state was Andrew Johnson from?
Tennessee
10 percent plan?
Lincoln's proposal offered lenient terms of pardon and amnesty to Confederates who swore allegiance to the United States.
Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
Fourteenth Amendment
gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws
Why was Andrew Johnson chosen as VP
From the south, showed loyalty to the north so it created unity
What was Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to Blacks in the politics of the South.
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln and Why was he assassinated
John Wilkes Booth, was a confederate sympathizer
15 amendment
voting rights for African Americans. prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
Who opposed Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
Radical Republicans
What were the 2 major issues of Reconstruction?
1. restoration of the Union, 2. rights for African Americans
What years did Reconstruction occur?
1865-1877