Plans for Reconstruction
The name of the plan that only required 10% of voters from 1860 to take an oath of allegiance to the U.S. before forming a new government
What was the 10 Percent Plan?
Had freedom but lost faced a poor economy and still did not have the resources to survive; many were homeless, unemployed, and uneducated after the war
Who were freedmen?
The decision by the House to accuse of wrongdoing and bring to a trial
What is impeachment?
What was sharecropping?
The period from 1865-1877, also known as the "Second Founding of America"
The creator of the 10 Percent Plan, whose priority was to readmit the South quickly
Lost their slaves and source of wealth, their land was initially seized by the government but then returned, reasserting the power structure of slavery
Who were Southern plantation owners?
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
These two practices helped prevent freedmen from being eligible to vote
What were poll taxes and literacy tests?
The historical narrative that the Confederates had a justifiable and moral cause in fighting the Civil War (states' rights)
What is the Lost Cause myth?
What was the Congressional Plan?
The term for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War
Who were carpetbaggers?
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in this Republican figure becoming president
Who was Rutherford Hayes?
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
A federal holiday on the last recorded day when a Union general announced the end of the war and slavery to Southerners
What is Juneteenth?
The plan that stated that the South must accept the 13th Amendment, except it included nothing about freedmen
Johnson's Plan
The name Democrats gave to white Southern Republicans
Who were scalawags?
The financial crisis that became a major distraction away from Reconstruction during the Grant presidency
What was the Panic of 1873?
This term was used by the Supreme Court to justify the segregation of facilities
What is "separate but equal"?
Reconstruction served as a foundation for this period of time in the 20th century
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
The bill written by Radical Republicans stating that Congress should direct Reconstruction, vetoed by Lincoln
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
The term for the few Black people who were able to escape the South and and migrate together to Kansas
Who were exodusters?
Act that stated that the president could not fire officials without Senate approval, ignored by Johnson
What was the Tenure of Office Act (1867)?
This freedman from Mississippi was the first Black Congressman and served on the Senate
Who was Hiram Revels?
These laws were used by states to push back against the rights promoted during Reconstruction, reversing the progress made during that era
What were Jim Crow laws?