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Rebuilding the South
Fight over Reconstruction
Reconstruction in the South
Vocabulary
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________________ was the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.
Reconstruction
100
This amendment granted citizenship
14th
100
People who moved from the north to the south in order to make money off of the poor south
carpetbaggers
100
(1865) Constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery.
13th
100
how did the freedman's bureau help the south?
built school and colleges
200
Explain the state that the south was in after the Civil War...
Ruined; burned; worthless money
200
These laws divided the South into 5 districts, with a U.S. military commander in charge of each district.
Reconstruction Acts
200
Southern Democrats disliked white southern Republicans. They were referred to as ________________, or greedy rascals. They believed that they had betrayed the South.
scalawags
200
Laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans.
Black Codes
200
Alaska and hawaii belong to what region?
non contiguous
300
What was Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction called? Explain
10% Plan; Once 10 percent of voters in a state had sworn an oath of loyalty to the U.S. and accepted a ban on slavery, they could form a new government.
300
This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
300
What group was created during Reconstruction in order to put fear into African Americans?
Ku Klux Klan
300
Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states.
Jim Crow Laws
300
• Urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the war and reunite as Americans when some wanted to continue to fight
Robert E Lee
400
what abolitionist believed that “slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot [vote].”
Frederick Douglass
400
What are two examples of rights taken away from African Americans because of the Black Codes
i. Forcing African Americans to sign work contracts. ii. Arresting African Americans who did not have jobs. iii. Preventing African Americans from owning guns.
400
In what ways were African Americans denied the right to vote?
poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses
400
(1896) Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities.
Plessy v. Ferguson
400
Explain the Wade Davis Bill
i. Ban slavery. ii. A majority of the adult males in the state had to take the loyalty oath. Only southerners who swore that they had never supported the Confederacy could vote or hold office.
500
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln and who became president afterwards?
John Wilkes Booth; Andrew Johnson
500
Explain the 15th Amendment
In 1869 Congress proposed the 15th Amendment in order to give African American men throughout the U.S. the right to vote. It ensures all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
500
Explain the Compromise of 1877
Hayes was elected president; in return, all remaining federal troops were removed from the South.
500
Agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people in the South.
Freedmen's Bureau
500
Believed that Preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South
Abhraham Lincoln