People/Organizations
This organization formed during Reconstruction in order to destroy Republicans, both black and white, in the South
What is the KKK? (Ku Klux Klan)
Reuniting the nation and rebuilding the South
What was Reconstruction?
Ways that African Americans were affected by Black Codes
What was segregation and voting rights?
What is the 14th Amendment?
People who now can hold office during Reconstruction
Who were African Americans?
Established to aid former enslaved African Americans
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
These amendments were put in place to protect African American rights
What was the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
The event in which a president was nearly kicked out of office due to his reluctance towards Reconstruction policies
What was Andrew Johnson's impeachment?
banned slavery in the US and all of its territories
What is the 13th Amendment?
1877
What year did Reconstruction end?
Won the highly controversial election of 1876
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
Temporary act that got rid of the Black Codes
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Laws that made segregation legal after Reconstruction
What were Jim Crow laws?
Guaranteed citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment?
How many military districts was the South divided into during Congressional Reconstruction?
What was 5?
Believed "the white men alone must manage the South"
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This act did not recognize state readmission that had occurred under Lincoln or Johnson
What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
Gave African American males the right to vote
What was the 15th Amendment?
Result of the compromise of the election of 1876 and federal troops leaving the South
What was the end of Reconstruction?
Wrote the 10% Plan for Reconstruction. Focused on reconciliation instead of punishing the South.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The South was divided into 5 districts and each state added the 14th and 15th Amendment to their state constitution
What was the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867?
The system where plantation owners would hire former slaves for a small sum of money or some of the crop
What was sharecropping?
Also know as the Reconstruction Amendments
What were the 13th,14th,and 15th Amendments?
The year that Reconstruction began
What was 1865?