This plan offered freedmen the following: property, money to build a house, and voting rights.
What is the Radical Republican Plan?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
If were an African American and wanted to vote in some Southern states, you needed to pay a fee.
What is a poll tax?
According to eyewitness, Johh Wilkes Booth was also carrying this weapon when he assassinated President Lincoln.
What is a dagger?
The nickname for a Northerner who traveled down to the South to benefit financially.
What is a carpet bagger?
These plans were criticized by the Radical Republicans because they believed they did not punish the Confederate states enough for their actions.
What is Lincoln's Plan and Johnson's Plan?
This amendment stated that people could not be denied the right to vote based on the color of their skin.
What is the 15th amendment?
This clause stated that if your grandfather or father voted in past elections, they could skip the poll tax and the literacy test.
What is the grandfather clause?
According to the medical report, what caused the death of Abraham Lincoln?
What is brain damage and massive blood loss?
This government agency was set up after the Civil War and during Reconstruction to help freedmen.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Lincoln's Plan is also often referred to by this name.
What is the 10% Plan?
This amendment stated that if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen of that country.
What is the 14th amendment?
This test was given to anyone who could not prove a 5th grade education.
What is a literacy test?
Sitting alongside President Lincoln when he was shot was his wife. While most called her the "first lady of the USA." Her friends and family referred to her by her actual name.
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?
This person became the President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This plan called for military districts to be set up throughout the South. Each district would then be supervised by a governor in charge.
What was the Radical Republican Plan?
This amendment has a clause or loophole that allows people to be held as "servants" if they committed a crime.
What is the 13th amendment?
The following image shows another way the South tried to stop African Americans from voting.
What is violence and intimidation?
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln at this theater.
What is Ford's Theater?
This speech had the famous line "this nation shall have a new birth of freedom."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This person went against the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction because the Radicals proposed spending millions of dollars to help former slaves as well as giving them the right to vote.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
This amendment was defied by the South when they began segregating blacks and whites.
What is the 14th amendment?
Voting restrictions did not just target African Americans. This other group was also discriminated against when trying to cast their ballot.
Who are poor whites?
According to eyewitnesses, John Wilkes-Booth shouted this when he assassinated the President.
What is Sic semper tyrannis!?
These laws were passed by the Southern states during Reconstruction to prevent African Americans from obtaining rights.
What were the black codes?