Vocab
Define Reconstruction
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when the United States rebuilt and came back together after the war.
Who were the 4 presidents during Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes
What were the three reconstruction plans?
Lincolns plan,Johnsons plan,and the Wade-Davis Bill
What was the general goal of Reconstruction?
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Banned slavery in the United States except for as punishment for crimes.
This person proposed the 10% Plan.
President Lincoln
What Reconstruction plan was the harshest?
What happens when Reconstruction ends?
Power is given back to former Confederates and the growth/gains that African Americans had gained are mostly repealed- leading to the Jim Crow Era.
What did the 14th Amendment do?
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 and only required 10% of the state's voters to declare loyalty to the Union.
Who were carpetbaggers?
Nickname given to northerners who would travel to the South for profit off vulnerable populations.
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Defined voting rights for American citizens. (Granting the right to vote to most men, but not women or Native Americans).
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.
Who won the Civil War?
What was the Compromise of 1877?
An agreement made to end Reconstruction in exchange for the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as President.
Which group opposed Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
Congress
What made the Wade-Davis bill so harsh?
Who was Frederick Douglass?