General Reconstruction
What was Reconstruction?
The effort to rebuild and reunite the United States after the Civil War
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment of a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist in the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
What Amendment is the part of?
13th Amendment
African Americans were forced to pay these in order to vote
Poll Taxes
The Northern states, who fought against slavery
The Union
This was the president during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Why was the American Civil War fought?
To preserve the Union
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What Amendment is this part of?
15th Amendment
Literacy Tests
The Southern states, who succeeded from the United States
The Confederacy
President after Lincoln. He was a Pro-Union Democrat and didn't support equal rights; however, he required states to ratify the Reconstruction Amendments
Andrew Johnson
What decade did Reconstruction begin (double points [600 total] for the specific year)
1860s (1863)
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside
What Amendment is this part of?
14th Amendment
Once a social group, they began to terrorize African Americans with the threat of lynching
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Presidential Reconstruction was favored by...
Southern Democrats
A former general for the Union in the Civil War; He later became president
Ulysses S. Grant
Who gained the right to vote in the era of Reconstruction?
Black men
This program provided assistance to African Americans and poor white southerners
Freedman's Bureau
A system that replaced slavery. Farmers raise crops for a landowner in return for part of the money made
Sharecropping
How did the Union get the South to abide by laws to grant blacks new found freedom?
Threats
Those who believed the government had become too large and too powerful
Liberal Republicans
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Laws that were intended to limit and "loophole" African American rights
Black Codes
The fair distribution of oppurtunities and privileges, including racial equality
Social Justice
Those who believed the Confederacy should be punished for secession and war
Radical Republicans