Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment outlawed the act of slavery amongst the United States. Preventing the labor of slavery from continuing into future generations by establishing it to be illegal.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The 16th president of the United States, assassinated six days after the Civil War comes to an end. Upholding the Republican platform focused upon the issue of slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Laws passed in the South that restricted the rights of African Americans. These limited rights put the life of an African American at a lower risk for survival in society.
What are the Black Codes?
The death of an individual after the Civil War was to end granting Andrew Johnson to be put into office.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
President Abraham Lincoln composed this plan with the outcome of welcoming the South. This plan required the Southern states to pledge a loyalty oath to the United States in support of emancipation.
What is the 10% plan?
Provides the right to vote guaranteed to all men no matter their race or culture.
What is the 15th Amendment?
General during the Civil War and elected president in the election of 1868. With the help of the African American community by advocating the rights of free slaves.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
An organization composed of former Confederate soldiers that terrorized African Americans and individuals who supported the Union in the South.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
The impeachment of the president that came into office after Lincoln's assassination. After the Radical Republicans opposed his new plan.
What is the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
Johnson's Plan
Republican Radical Plan
What is the three reconstruction plans?
Guarantees citizenship to all individuals born onto the soil of the United States. Being able to uphold equal protection under this amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The first African American Senator representing Mississippi.
Who is Hiram Revels?
Individuals who had to rent land off from landowners in exchange for household needs. Composed of former enslaved African Americans who had no options on where to go.
What is Sharecropping?
An acquired Southern law, that needed African Americans to pay forward a fee in order to vote.
What is Poll Taxes?
A draft made by Republicans in 1864, that establishes 50% of voters are required to pledge to the oath in order of positioning soldiers throughout the South.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This amendment excluded the rights of the women's population which resulted in the establishment of the 19th Amendment in the 1900s.
What is the 15th Amendment?
An individual who came into office after the death of Abraham Lincoln, however, was impeached after upholding disagreements with the Radical Republicans on his new plan.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
An organization established to help former slaves in obtaining a stable income and secure rights from white Southerners who wanted to keep the formerly enslaved inferior.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This president carried a purpose of protecting African Americans rights, especially when sending troops to the South in advancements to destroy the KKK.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Individuals who thought that Lincoln was too lenient on the Southerners and wanted to punish the South. Through the demand for civil rights for freedmen and the position of Union soldiers across the South.
What are the Radical Republicans?
Pertains to the establishment of The Citizenship Clause and The Due Process Clause.
What is the 14th Amendment?
For the duration of the Reconstruction era, this individual demanded the proper civil rights of African Americans and women's rights as well. He even was an adviser to Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
1. Individuals from the North who migrate toward the South in aiding the Freedmen's Bureau and affecting the Southern government through their support of the Republican party.
2. An individual from the South that supports the Union resulting in the enraged feeling of betrayal from other Southerners. Especially their life at high risk due to the KKK.
What are Carpetbaggers and Scalawags?
President Lincoln signs this bill that states, the enslaved who lived in the Southern state's shall be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This individual calls for his own plan to be set in order to call for the state convention to repeal secession as the result of allowing the Southern states in uniting with the Union.
What is Andrew Johnson's Plan?