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Reconstruction Plan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the 13 Amendment do? | Freed African-Americans from being slaves and ended slavery in the United States. |
| During what years did the Reconstruction Era last? | From 1865 to 1877. |
| What are "Black Codes"? | Laws that treated the emancipated men like slaves again, but legally. |
| What is President Lincoln's 10% Plan? | A plan that made an attempt to solve the problem with former Confederate leaders, politicians, and soldiers while deciding how to bring the former Confederate states back to the Union. |
| What is President Johnson's 10%+ Plan? | Similar to President Lincoln's 10% Plan, but more difficult to let the former Confederate states in the Union. |
| What is the Reconstruction? | The era after the Civil War that reformed the southern states and brought the country back as a whole. |
| What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau? | Providing food, supplies, medical care, help, and education to all freedmen and white refugees. |
| Who were the "Radical Republicans"? | Republicans that opposed President Johnson's plan for reconstruction and demanded equality to freedmen and African-Americans. |
| Define the 14th Amendment. | Everyone born or naturalized in the United States gain citizenship, civil rights, and the right to life, liberty, and property. |
| Define the 15th Amendment. | All citizens have the right to vote, but women still do not have the right to vote. |
| What are "carpetbaggers"? | Northern whites coming down to the South to gain profit and took advantage of Southerners. |
| What are "scalawags"? | White Southerners becoming Republicans. |
| What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)? | One of the most violent hate/terrorist groups in the United States since the Reconstruction. |