Reconstruction Goals & Big Ideas
This term describes the period after the Civil War when the U.S. worked to rebuild the South and reunite the nation.
What is Reconstruction?
He became president in 1865 after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment defined anyone born in the United States as a citizen and promised equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
These laws were used in the South to control freedmen and take away many of their rights.
What are Black Codes?
This was Abraham Lincoln’s plan that allowed Southern states to rejoin the Union when 10 percent of voters pledged loyalty.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
In 1867, the south was put under these groups rule.
What is the military(army)
This Union war hero became president in 1868 and worked to protect the rights of freed slaves.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This group used violence, threats, and terrorism to frighten African Americans and white supporters in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This plan by Radical Republicans required 50 percent of Southern voters to swear loyalty before readmission.
What is the Wade–Davis Bill?
This foundation was started by Lincoln to help former slaves
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
He led the Radical Republicans in Congress and pushed for harsh Reconstruction in the South.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
This amendment said that states could not deny African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This system of farming kept many freedmen trapped in debt while they worked land owned by someone else.
What is sharecropping?
This president was impeached in 1868 for violating the Tenure of Office Act but was not removed from office.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This nickname described using Civil War memories to win political support, especially by blaming the South.
What is “waving the bloody shirt”?
He became president in 1876 under suspicious circumstances after disputed election results.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
This law granted citizenship to African Americans and civil rights to everyone except Native Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This voting rule required a person to pay money before voting.
What is a poll tax?
This 1896 Supreme Court case declared segregation legal under the idea of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This phrase, promoted by Henry Grady, encouraged the South to move away from an economy based only on cotton.
What is the “New South”?
He was the Democratic candidate who ran against Rutherford B. Hayes in the election of 1876.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
These acts were designed to stop the use of violence or threats to keep African Americans from voting.
What are the Enforcement Acts (KKK Acts)?
This law said you didn’t need to pass a literacy test if your father or grandfather had been allowed to vote.
What is the grandfather clause?
This agreement ended the North’s military occupation of the South and is often seen as the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?