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Reconstruction
Civil War Reconstruction Review
Term | Definition |
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13th Amendment | Official change to the Constitution that ABOLISHED SLAVERY |
14th Amendment | Official change to the Constitution that GRANTED CITIZENSHIP |
15th Amendment | Official change to the Constitution that gave all races the RIGHT TO VOTE |
Lincoln's Plan | Reconstruction Plan that required 10% of voters to pledge their oath of loyalty to the US |
Wade Davis Bill | Congressional response to Lincoln's plan |
Johnson's Plan | Required states to ratify the 13th Amendment; supported Black Codes in the South |
Radical Republicans | Political group that divided the South into 5 military districts |
Sharecropping | System of working land as a tenant farmer in exchange for a portion of the profits; resulted in cycle of debt for Freedmen |
Black Codes | Examples include literacy test and poll tax |
Rutherford B. Hayes | Winner of the 1876 election; President who ended Reconstruction |
Compromise of 1877 | Allowed Hayes to be President if he agreed to remove military rule from the South |
Carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved South to support Reconstruction efforts and benefit economically |
Scalawags | Southerners who supported the Reconstruction efforts |
Freedmen's Bureau | Organization created to assist former slaves with clothing, food, and education |
John Wilkes Booth | Abraham Lincoln's assassin |
impeach | To put the President on trail (as happened to Johnson) |
Ford's Theatre | Where Lincoln was shot |
SC Constitution of 1868 | Created Republican Rule in SC; a state government that was majority black |