Reconstuction Flashcards
The time period following the Civil War where the country had to be rebuilt. (1865-1877)
Reconstruction
Forgiveness for any crimes committed.
amnesty
Lincoln’s plan required voters in each Southern state to take an oath of loyalty to the Union. When 10 percent of the voters in a state had taken the oath, the state could form a new state government. The state would also be required to adopt a new constitution that banned slavery. Once a state had met these conditions, it could send representatives to Congress. It also included ratifying the 13th amendment and amnesty for most Confederates.
Lincoln’s ten percent plan
The African Americans that were just freed from slavery and trying to adjust to life.
freedmen
Why were the Radical Republicans considered “radical?”
They were thought to be extreme in their Reconstruction plan. They wanted rights for freedmen and punishment for Confederates.
3 things that the freedmen’s bureau did
a. Provided food, clothing, and medical care to poor Southerners, especially those freed from slavery.
b. It set up schools, some staffed with teachers from the North.
c. The bureau helped some people get their own land to farm or find work for fair pay.
The person who killed Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The Vice President who became President after Lincoln passed away.
Andrew Johnson
A plan was made to get rid of slavery completely. States had to ratify the 13th amendment, amnesty was given to former Confederates, and Southern states were allowed to elect representatives to the US house.
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
What did the 13th Amendment do?
It abolished slavery.
Laws that were designed to help control the newly freed African Americans immediately after the Civil War.
black codes
Meant to protect rights of freedmen and classify them as citizens.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
What were two main goals of the Radical Republicans in their approach to Reconstruction?
Punish Confederates and protect rights of the freedmen.
What did the 14th Amendment do?
Defined citizenship as someone born in the US and established that all citizens are equally protected under laws of the US.
Divide South into 5 military districts with a General in charge of each one. New state constitution written. 13th and 14 amendments. It placed southern states under military control.
Radical Republicans’ Reconstruction Act of 1867
The process of bringing formal charges against a public official.
impeachment
Why did Congress impeach President Johnson?
They said he violated the Tenure of Office Act.
What did the 15th amendment do?
This amendment guaranteed that state and federal governments could not deny the right to vote to any male citizen because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Gave voting rights to African Americans.
Whites Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South.
scalawags
Northerners that headed South during the Civil War.
carpetbaggers
Groups who disguised themselves in white sheets and hoods and used fear and violence to deny rights to freed men and women.
Klu Klux Klan
System of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop.
sharecropping
Two problems that occurred when Ulysses Grant was in office.
Scandal and a severe economic depression.
Who won the Presidential election in 1876?
Governor Rutherford B. Hayes
