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Reconstruction

TermDefinition
Lincoln's Plan Former Confederate states could recreate a Union Government once 10% swore allegiance to the constitution.
Congressional Plans Main focus was on bringing the southern states back into full political participation in the Union, guaranteeing rights to former slaves and defining new relationships between African Americans and whites.
The Wade-Davis Bill Required the majority of citizens to need allegiance. It was vetoed.
The Freedmen’s Bureau Made to assist the “Freedman and their wives and children”. Issued fundamental rights to Blacks, such as education, and homeland.
Johnson’s Plan Kept Lincoln’s 10% Plan; went back to the “The Union as it was” ;implemented the Black Codes;granting amnesty and returning people's property if they pledged to be loyal to him
Freedmen’s Conventions First statewide gatherings of blacks in North Carolina where both whites and blacks would come together to solve local problems and discuss politics.
Black Codes Ensured ex-slaves was not a free man he was a free negro; restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
Impeachment The process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct
Fourteenth Amendment Provides equal protection. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
Congressional Reconstruction The period after the Civil War in which the federal government enacted and attempted to enforce equal suffrage on the ex-Confederate states.
Sharecropping A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
Carpetbaggers 30,000 scheming Northerners who rushed South with their belongings in cheap suitcases made of carpeting to grab political power or buy plantations.
Scalawags White Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
Ku Klux Klan Harassed/lynched blacks and was designed to intimidate Black voters and white supporters of the Republican Party.
The Election of 1868 Propelled General Ulysses S. Grant into the presidency of the United States for the first of his two term. Brought diversity to the federal Gov.
The Fifteenth Amendment Gave the right to vote for African American Men
The Union League The first African American Radical Republican organization in the southern United States. The League was created in the North during the American Civil War as a patriotic club to support the Union.
The 1872 Election Grant won again because his opponent Horace Greeley died.
Panic of 1873 Triggered a deep depression. Democrats blamed the Republicans
Colfax Massacre The Colfax Massacre of 1873, also known as the Colfax Riot, was the deadliest incident of racial and political violence during the Reconstruction era, claiming the lives of at least seventy and perhaps as many as 150 men.
Southern “Redeemers” Saved the South from Republican ncontrol and "Black Rule"
The Slaughterhouse Cases A Supreme Court case cluster, the Slaughterhouse Cases of 1873, was a 14th Amendment challenge to a Louisiana regulation limiting butchering to only select slaughterhouses.
U.S. v. Cruikshank In its decision, the Supreme Court sided with Cruikshank, ruling that the 14th Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses applied only to state action, and not to violations of civil rights by individual citizens.
The Compromise of 1877 Promise that if Hayes were president that Union Troops would leave the South.
The “Lost Cause” White Southerners aggressively renewed traditional patterns of discriminatory against African Americans.
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