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Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
Which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
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Reconstruction
The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. During Reconstruction, the South was divided into military districts for the supervision of elections to set up new state governments. -
Wade-Davis Bill
Was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans -
Special Field Order 15
were military orders issued during the American Civil War -
Freedmen's Bureau
To help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. -
Black Codes
Were laws passed by Southern states after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
Ku Klux Klan
Was one of a number of secret, oath-bound organizations using violence, which included the Southern Cross in New Orleans -
Scalawags
Any Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedman and the carpetbagger -
Presidential Lincoln’s death
The 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth -
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition -
Reconstruction Act
Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. -
Impeachment of President Johnson
President Andrew Johnson, adopting eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors", in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution. -
13th – 15th Amendments
Were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. The 13th Amendment banned slavery and all involuntary servitude, except in the case of punishment for a crime. -
“Great Constitutional Revolution”
Concept introduced by Carl Schurz. The laws and amendments of Reconstruction reflected the intersection of two products of the Civil War era—a newly empowered national state, and the idea of a national citizenry enjoying equality before the law. -
Shareropping
Is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
Enforcement Act
Were three bills passed by the United States Congress between. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Slaughterhouse Cases
Legal dispute that resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1873 limiting the protection of the privileges and communities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era in response to civil rights violations to African Americans, "to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights", giving them equal treatment -
Radical Republicans
Were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States. They called themselves "Radicals" with a sense of a complete permanent eradication of slavery and secession, without compromise. -
Bargain of 1877
Was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
