Laws and Amendments
This constitutional amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the United States.
13th Amendment.
Under this Reconstruction plan, a certain percentage of a state's eligible voters agreed to take a loyalty oath to begin rejoining the Union.
This individual assumed the U.S. presidency following Lincoln's assassination in April 1865.
Andrew Johnson.
This term describes a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War seeking employment or business opportunities. However, they really meant this:
Carpetbagger: implied the newcomers were broke opportunists.
The KKK was a white supremacist hate group that used used this to further push their goals.
violence / terrorism / fear
These southern state laws, passed in 1865-1866, restricted the freedom and labor of formerly enslaved people.
Black Codes.
Under Johnson Reconstruction Plan, these 2 groups had to request a pardon in person.
Confederate officials/generals, and people with property valued over $20,000.
This U.S. President used federal authority under the Enforcement Act of 1871 to suppress the Ku Klux Klan.
Ulysses S. Grant
This term describes white Southerners who supported Republican policies and federal Reconstruction efforts. However, they really meant this...
Scalawags: implied they were a deceitful or unreliable person.
In this system, the landowner would provide land and materials for tenants to farm with. As payment, tenants would be given part of the harvest.
sharecropping.
This constitutional amendment guaranteed voting rights for Black men.
15th Amendment.
This requirement was explicitly stated in the federal Reconstruction loyalty oath.
Defending the Constitution.
Specifically: the abolishment of slavery.
This Republican candidate won the contested United States presidential election of 1876.
Rutherford B. Hayes.
This was the core mission of the Freedmen's Bureau.
To help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom and citizenship.
What was the primary overarching goal of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction era?
To restore white supremacy and oppose federal Reconstruction policies.
This constitutional amendment established birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law in 1868?
14th Amendment.
Johnson used this (presidential power) to stop Congress from executing their Reconstruction plan.
Veto
The Compromise of 1877 awarded Hayes _________________ in exchange ____________.
The presidency in exchange for removal of federal troops from the south.
This political faction favored a more lenient approach toward readmitting Southern states.
War Democrats.
According to Reconstruction historians, this primary change in Southern society provoked white terror violence.
Interracial democracy / Black voting rights.
This Act gave the federal government greater powers to protect the constitutional rights + voting rights of black Americans.
The Enforcement Act 1871
The Congressional Reconstruction Plan proposed the Military Reconstruction Acts, which primarily did this.
It divided the South into five military districts governed by federal troops (to enforce the new amendments).
This individual served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?
Nathan Bedford Forrest.
This political faction pushed for aggressive federal action against slavery and the former Confederacy during Reconstruction.
Radical Republicans.
Under Labor Contracts, what penalty did Black laborers face if they broke their required yearly employment contracts early?
forfeited all earned wages / faced immediate arrest.