Reconstruction Flashcards
Abolished slavery in the USA and its territories
13th Amendment
Grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the USA, including former slaves
Also includes due process, the right to fair treatment through the normal judicial system
14th Amendment
Grants all male citizens the right to vote
15th Amendment
Did all groups receive the rights of the 13-15th Amendment immediately
No - Native American and women would not receive them for many years
President of the Union (NORTH) during the Civil War. After the war, he wanted the North and the South to reconcile
Abraham Lincoln
President after Lincoln was assassinated. Had a mostly hands off approach for Reconstruction and did things that hurt African Americans, like getting rid of the Freedman’s Bureau
Andrew Johnson
Union General who became president after Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
President who won the 1876 election by promising to remove troops from the South and end Reconstruction
Rutherford B Hayes
General of the Confederate States (SOUTH) who encouraged Southerners to stop fighting and reconcile with the North
Robert E Lee
Former slave who escaped and fought for abolition and voting rights for all as an adult
Frederick Douglass
Former slave who stole a Confederate ship, sailed to the North, joined the Union Army, and later became a congressman
Robert Smalls
When did the Civil War end
1865
When did Reconstruction Begin
1865
When did Andrew Johnson become president
1865
When was President Lincoln assassinated
1865
1866
- Black Codes are implemented that take away the rights of African Americans
- Black codes are removed with creation of 14th and 15th Amendments
- Civil Rights Act of 1866 is created to protect the rights of former slaves
- Federal troops are sent to the South to enforce this act
1876
- A presidental election is held that is too close to call.
- a special committe is organized to decide who will become presient
- Rutherford B Hayes says he will remove federal troops from the south if he gets the presidency
- He sticks to his word, so troops are removed, the Civil Rights Act is no longer protected
Reconstruction ends a year later
1877
- With Civil Rights Act and federal troopos gone, white southerners start spreading Jim Crow Laws and restrict voting from African American s
- Segregation spreads to most corners of life and continues all over the country for around a century
The movement to end slavery. People who believed in this cause were Abolitionists
Abolition
Rules implemented in the South in order to limit the rights of former slaves. These included limitations on the jobs they could have and limits to African Americans’ ability to vote
Black Codes
Black codes were rules implemented in the South in order to _____ of former slaves. These included _____ they could have and limits to African Americans’ _____
- limit the rights
- limitations on jobs
- ability to vote
Northerners who came to the South to take advantage of the area after the Civil War. Disliked by Southerners
Carpetbaggers
Carpetbaggers were _____ who came to the South to take advantage of the area after the Civil War. ____ by Southerns
- Northerners
- Disliked
The unequal treatment of different groups because they are different from one another
Discrimination
Group that aided former slaves with education, jobs, food, shelter, and more. Disbanded early into Reconstruction
Feedman’s Bureau
Discrimination is the ______ because they are different from one another
unequal treatment of different groups
The opposite of segregation. Integrated places are where people of different groups can interact freely and normally
Integration
Freedman’s Bureau is a group that ____ with education, jobs, food, shelter, and more. It was _____ early into Reconstruction
- aided former slaves
- disbanded
Laws created by racist Americans to legalize segregation. These applied in restaurants, schools, hospitals, and most places throughout America into the mid-1900s
Jim Crow Laws
Integration is the _____
opposite of segregation
Jim Crow laws were created by racists American’s to _____. These applied in _____, _____, _____ and most places throughout American into the mid-1900s
- legalize segregation
- restaurants
- schools
- hospitals
Terrorist group that used violence and fear to intimidate and kill African Americans in the late 1800s. Still exists today
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is a _____ that used _____ to intimidate and kill African Americans in the late 1800s
- terrorist group
- violence and fear
“To come back together after a conflict.” Was the desire of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee following the Civil War
Reconcile
The period after the Civil War in which the south was rebuilt. Lasted from 1865 (the end of the war) to 1877. Rights for African Americans changed drastically, from the highs of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the lows of Black Codes and sharecropping
Reconstruction
The separation of different groups based on traits like race
Segregation
System of farming that kept former slaves working for white landowners by keeping them in constant debt
Sharecropping
Following the Civil War, _____ could hold government office, but people who had been _____ could not
- African Americans
- military leaders of the Confederacy (south)
Federal Troops were sent down into the South to protect the rights of former slaves under the _____. After Hayes was elected in 1876, the troops were removed,_____ ended the following year, and _____ grew throughout the nation
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Reconstruction
- racism
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who_____. This is not be confused with Robert Smalls, another escaped slave who took more direct action by.
- fought for equal rights and abolition
- stealing a Confederate ship and taking it north to the Union army
Former Confederate leaders went _____ following the Civil War, as leaders like Lincoln believed they had been punished enough by the fighting and bloodshed and
- mostly unpunished
- wanted the nation to reconcile
Jim Crow Laws applied to people of _____ color. Most things were divided into sections
- ALL
- Whites Only and Colored Only
