Reconstruction 20% Flashcards
Reconstruction
The process the country went through after the war, reconstructing the south and economy
Ten Percent Plan
Proposed by Lincoln. 10% of each state needed to vote for a new government to be readmitted
Thirteenth amendment
Slavery banned unless punishment
Fourteenth amendment
Equal protection of laws
Fifteenth amendment
Granted African Americans right to vote
Freedman’s bureau
Helped compensate former slaves in the south after the civil war
Black codes
Greatly limited African American rights and made them sign work contracts similar conditions to slavery
Radical Republicans
They wanted southern states to change drastically before rejoining the union. They hated Black codes as well
Thaddeus Stevens
Leader of Radical Republicans
Civil Rights Act of 1866
It provided AA with the same legal rights as white Americans
Andrew Johnson
He was Lincoln’s Vice President but after Lincoln was assassinated he became president and reconstruction was his responsibility now
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation of black and white people
Redeemers
White southern democrats who wanted an end to reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who went to the south to work purely for profit
Scalawags
A white southerner who supported reconstruction and supported the Republican Party
KKK
Hated black freedmen
Grandfather clause
Literacy tests and poll tax
Civil rights act of 1875
It outlaws racial segregation
General amnesty plan of 1872
It removed voting restrictions on most former members of the Confederacy
Panic of 1873
Financial crisis
Hiram Revels
First AA to serve in Senate
Blanche K. Bruce
First AA to serve a full term in Senate
Compromise of 1877
Federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, ending the Reconstruction Era
