Legislation
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
He created the “10 Percent Plan” to help Southern states rejoin the Union quickly after the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Reconstruction plan was known as the “10 Percent Plan” because only a small portion of Southern voters had to swear loyalty to the Union for their state to rejoin.
What is Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan?
During Reconstruction, 600 African Americans made political gains, including electing officials like Hiram Revels to Congress.
What were some successes of Reconstruction?
These two types of laws both limited African Americans’ rights, but one was used right after the Civil War, and the other was used later to enforce segregation.
What is the difference between Black Codes and Jim Crow laws?
(Black Codes came right after the Civil War to control freed people; Jim Crow laws enforced segregation later.)
This 1866 law gave African Americans equal rights and allowed the federal government to take action against states that violated those rights.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This Confederate general encouraged Southerners to reconcile and rejoin the Union.
Who is Robert E. Lee
They wanted to punish the South, protect freedmen’s rights, and place the South under military rule during Reconstruction.
What is the Radical Republicans’ (or Congressional) Reconstruction Plan?
This farming system kept many formerly enslaved people in debt and poverty by forcing them to rent land and give most of their crops to white landowners.
What is sharecropping?
An example of this type of law is one that made it illegal for African Americans to own guns or be unemployed.
What is an example of a Black Code?
This amendment granted citizenship to everyone born in the United States and guaranteed “equal protection under the law.”
What is the 14th amendment
This Union general became president and worked to enforce civil rights laws and protect African American voters during Reconstruction.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This president’s plan for Reconstruction was very lenient toward former Confederate leaders and allowed Southern states to pass “Black Codes.”
What is Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?
During Reconstruction, this was built across the South to educate formerly enslaved people for the first time.
What was the creation of public schools for African Americans?
An example of these laws would be “separate schools,” “whites-only restaurants,” or “colored” drinking fountains.
What is an example of a Jim Crow law?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
This former enslaved man became a leading voice for equality and advised presidents on African American rights during Reconstruction.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
To rebuild the South, reunite the nation, and secure rights and equality for newly freed African Americans.
What was the goal of Reconstruction?
After federal troops were withdrawn, white supremacist groups like this one used violence and fear to stop African Americans from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This government agency was created to help formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom by providing food, education, and job assistance.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A bill, proposed by Radical Republicans, required a majority of white men in a Confederate state to swear loyalty to the Union before being readmitted — but President Lincoln vetoed it.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
He was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate, representing Mississippi during Reconstruction.
Who is Hiram Revels?
In this 1873 Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that most civil rights were controlled by state governments, which weakened the 14th Amendment’s protections for African Americans.
What are the Slaughterhouse Cases?
This 1877 political deal ended Reconstruction when federal troops left the South, effectively ending efforts to protect African American rights.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Although it helped many people, this agency struggled because it lacked funding, support, and faced resistance from white Southerners.
What were the challenges faced by the Freedmen’s Bureau?