Reconstruction plans | Amendments | The Freedmen | Reconstruction vocabulary | More vocab and poems |
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Abraham Lincoln's plan (forgiveness)
The 10% plan that allowed states to be pardoned was whose plan?
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Fourteenth amendment (14th)
What amendment guaranteed African Americans citizenship to the U.S.?
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The freedman's bureau
What provided the most positive effects for the African Americans such as food and clothing, medical care, and schools after the civil war?
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Lynching
The public hanging oh African Americans was called?
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Segregation
Separating blacks and whites because of their race
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Radical republicans from Congress
Who created the radical plan?
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Thirteenth amendment (13th)
What is the amendment that abolished slavery?
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The share cropping system
What system kept African Americans in poverty after the civil war?
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The Jim Crow laws
Laws that separated blacks and whites from using the same facilities
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The black codes
Laws that severely limited the rights of freed blacks
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Former slaves became sharecroppers
What change happened in agriculture after the civil war in the south?
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Fifteenth amendment (15th)
What amendment granted African Americans the right to vote?
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Ruined cities and plantations that needed rebuilding
At the end of the civil war the south had...
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Homer Plessy
He was denied his train seat because of his race
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Radical republicans
Wanted to punish the southern states and gain equal rights for African Americans
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Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clause also known as the black codes
What three things were used to prevent African Americans from voting?
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The separation of blacks and whites in society
What is racial segregation?
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The formation of racially segregated public facilities
What happened as a result of Plessy vs. Ferguson?(separate but equal)
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Scalawags
Southern farmers who supported reconstruction
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Abraham Lincoln
Who/What was Walt Whitman referring to when using the term "captain" in his poem?
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Abraham Lincoln
Which president was killed before he could carry out his reconstruction plan?
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The first amendment (1st)
The ku klux klan had the legal right to demonstrate and protest through which amendment?
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When the radical republicans had control of the south
At what point during reconstruction did African Americans have the most fights?
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Carpetbaggers
Northerners who moved south to get rich
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The civil war
According to Walt Whitman, what "trip" was done?
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