Module 19 Lessons 1-3 slides Flashcards
What did the Ten Percent Plan require?
Southerners had to swear allegiance to the Union and agree that slavery was illegal.
What could happen after the 10 percent of the voters made the pledges for that state?
New state governments could be formed
Who did the Ten Percent Plan affect?
the Confederace/ Southerns
What did the states that secede have to do to get back into the Union?
To be readmitted, a state had to ban
slavery, and a majority of adult males had to take a loyalty oath.
Who tried to pass the Wade Davis bill and why?
The Republicans
Congressional Republicans’ alternative to Lincoln’s plan
What did the Wade-Davis bill say for voting or holding office
Only southerners who swore they had
never supported the Confederacy could
vote or hold office.
Did President Lincoln sign the Wade-Davis Bill?
President Lincoln refused to sign the bill into law.
Who agreed on abolishing slavery after the Civil War?
Republicans
What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?
Made slavery illegal in the United States
What did African Americans do now that they were free?
-Married couples could legalize their marriages.
-Families searched for Family members
-Most Moved
They basically started there lives
What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do? And Who did it help?
Newly freed African Americans
-Provided relief for freed people and poor people in the South
-Distributed food and provided education and legal help
Where was President Lincoln shot at and when did he die?
At the theater and died the next morning
Who became president since President Lincoln was died?
Vice President Andrew Johnson
What did President Johnson do when he got in office for the reconstruction?
Johnson appointed a temporary governor to lead each state.
States were required to revise their constitutions and declare that secession was illegal.
What did the Confederacy have to do after President Johnson got into office for the reconstruction?
-States had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment
Was everyone in the Union happy about the Confederacy joining the union again?
Congress refused to accept them back into the Union
What did Black Codes do or say? What did African Americans do in return?
Black Codes, laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
African Americans organized to oppose the codes.
Who started to create Black Code laws?
The new legislatures of the South
What was the black codes allowing that was just like slavery?
The codes created working conditions that resembled slavery for African Americans.
Who were not happy with the black code laws? What did they believe about the South because of the Codes?
Republicans they believed that the South was returning to its old ways.
What did the Radical Republicans want?
Wanted the federal government to step in. They wanted more federal control over Reconstruction to make sure southern leader did not remain loyal to the old Confederate principles
Who is an example of an Radical Republican?
Pennsylvania’s Thaddeus Stevens
What did the Fourteeth Amendment do?
Ensured citizenship for African Americans
Who passed the Civil Rights of 1866?
Congress
What happened during the process of passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
President Johnson vetoed it, Congress overrode the veto. It also proposed the Fourteenth Amendment to secure these protections
What Amendments was a key issue in the 1866 congressional elections?
The Fourteenth Amendment
What did the Fourteenth Amendment say?
Defined all people born or naturalized in United States, except Native Americans, as citizens
Guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law
Said states could not “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of
law”
Banned many former Confederate officials from holding state or federal offices
Made state laws subject to federal court review
Gave Congress the power to pass any laws needed to enforce the amendment
In the elections of 1866 gave Republicans a two-thirds majority in what places in Congress?
House of Representatives and Senate
What did the Republicans pass once they got into Congress?
First several Reconstruction Acts
Who established the Freedman’s Bureau? Also what did the Freedman’s Bureau establish?
Congress
Established 3,000 schools and universities
