Reconstruction Plans
This president wanted to make it easy for the United States to come back together after the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These laws were passed by Southern states to restrict the freedom and opportunities of African-Americans after the Civil War.
What were Black Codes?
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This year is generally considered the end of the Reconstruction era.
What is 1877?
This term describes Lincoln's plan to allow Southern states to return to the Union after 10% of its voters swore loyalty to the Union.
What was the 10% plan?
This amendment granted citizenship to people born in the US and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Under this system, farmers rented land and often paid the landowner with a significant portion of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
This group in Congress pushed for stronger protections for African-Americans during Reconstruction.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
These laws created racial segregation and restricted the rights of African-Americans, especially in the South.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This group in Congress believed the South should face stricter requirements for rejoining the Union and wanted to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This amendment prohibited the government from denying a man's right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This system often trapped farmers in debt because they had to borrow money for supplies and could owe more than they earned from their crops.
What is sharecropping?
Congress passed this law over President Johnson's veto to protect the civil and political rights of African-Americans.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Name two ways the South tried to restrict voting rights for African-Americans.
- Poll taxes.
- Literacy tests.
- Grandfather clauses.
- Violence and intimidation.
Unlike Presidential Reconstruction, this approach gave Congress greater control over rebuilding the South and protecting the rights of African-Americans.
What was Congressional Reconstruction?
A formerly enslaved person could reference this amendment when arguing that the Constitution recognized them as a U.S. citizen.
This organization was founded during Reconstruction and used violence and intimidation to oppose African-American political and civil rights.
What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Congress attempted to remove Andrew Johnson from office after accusing him of violating this law.
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
This agreement helped resolve the disputed presidential election of 1876 and resulted in the removal of federal troops from the South.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Put these three amendments in order from earliest to latest:
- Voting rights.
- Citizenship/equal protection.
- Abolition of slavery.
- 13th.
- 14th.
- 15th.
Put these in order of when they happened:
- Black Codes.
- Jim Crow laws.
- Congressional Reconstruction.
- Black Codes.
- Congressional Reconstruction.
- Jim Crow laws.
Andrew Johnson became the first US president to experience this process, although he was ultimately NOT removed from office.
What is impeachment?
Explain one major way the end of Reconstruction changed life for African-Americans in the South.
- Federal protections decreased.
- Jim Crow laws expanded.
- Voting rights were restricted.
- Segregation increased.
- Racial violence/intimidation increased.