Presidential Reconstruction
This president created a lenient 10% plan to bring the South back into the Union after the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This is the formal accusation to remove an official from office.
What is an impeachment?
This white supremacist group used violence and intimidation during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This disputed election took place between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden.
What is the Election of 1876?
This president took over after Lincoln’s assassination and clashed with Congress over Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
During the Reconstruction era, we saw the first black members of the representative bicameral legislative body.
What is Congress?
This group of Republicans in Congress wanted harsher punishment for the South and greater protections for freedpeople.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This compromise ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877? (The Corrupt Bargain)
This Reconstruction era president created the Department if Justice to help enforce violation of the law.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This voting restriction required citizens to pay money before they could cast a ballot and was often used to prevent African Americans from voting in the South.
What is a Poll Tax?
This was a system where a planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
After Reconstruction ended, Southern states created these laws enforcing racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This famous actor and southern sympathizer assassinated Lincoln on April 18th, 1865.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
These laws were created in the South to restrict the freedom of formerly enslaved people.
What are Black Codes?
This was a conspiracy between distillers, government officials, and tax collectors to defraud the federal government.
The Whiskey Ring?
This would stop marginalized groups from voting by testing their reading and writing abilities.
What are literacy tests?
This Supreme Court case established the idea of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This law, passed over Johnson’s veto, granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This government agency helped formerly enslaved people with education, food, and jobs after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This policy made it a crime to deny any individual equal use of public transport. It wasn't enforced until 1965.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
This Southern Democrat won the popular vote in the election of 1876.
Who was Samuel J. Tilden?
This economic crisis weakened support for Reconstruction during Grant’s presidency.
What is the Panic of 1873?