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Reconstruction
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Lincoln's Plan
Lincoln proposed the 10 percent plan to help states that were in rebellion rejoin the Union. -
Ten Percent Plan
Lincoln's plan for reconstruction also known as the Ten Percent plan which stated that states that were in rebellion to the United States could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath to the union. -
Wade-Davis Bill
A plan that was proposed by Senator Benjamin F.Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis. The Bill stated that 50 percent of a state's white males take a oath to be readmitted to the Union. In addition, states were required to give blacks the right to vote. -
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Johnson's plan
After Lincoln was assiassinated Johnson took over after Lincoln's death, and had a different plan for the south. He allowed for Black Code -
Special Field Order 15
Special Field Order No. 15 which was issued by General William Tecumseh Sherman which set aside a large amount of land along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia for the settlement of black families, refers to the phrase “40 acres and a mule” -
Freedmen's Bureau
also known as bureau of refugees was passed by congress to help former black slaves and poor whites after the civil war. -
President Lincoln's Assassination
On the evening of April 14, 1865 lincoln attended the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. John wilkes booth killed shot lincoln in the back of the head, lincoln died the next morning. -
13th Amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery and servitude, only for a punishment of crime. the law was passed by the senate on April 8,1864. It was then ratified on December 6, 1865 -
Black Codes
laws that were passed by southern states in 1865 and 1866. These laws were designated to limit the freedom of african americans in the south and having them work in a labor economy on low wages or debt. -
Ku Klux Klan
secret organization in the south founded in 1866. This group was founded by ex-confederate soldiers who opposed reconstruction, and encouraged acts of violence to african americans and jews. -
Civil rights bill of 1866
Bill was passed on April 9, 1866. This bill declared that all people were born in the United States are now citizens regardless of race or religion. -
Radical Republicans
a faction of american politicians within the republican party that began in 1854 and lasted until 1877. prevalent during this time period. -
Reconstruction Act
Reconstruction acts of 1867 which were plans on how southern states would be readmitted back into the union. The 14th amendment of 1868 provided citizenship for former slaves and all african americans. The 15th amendment of 1870 which allowed for black men the right to vote. -
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Congressional Reconstruction
After Johnson was impeached, The 14th and 15th amendment were put in. The Reconstruction was beginning to end and the north too the last troops out of the south, which ended the Reconstruction era. -
Impeachment of President Johnson
The US House of Representatives voted 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson’s secretary was cited for. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history. -
14th Amendment
United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves. It was ratified in 1868 -
Great Constitutional Revolution
Republican leader Carl Schurz called the “great Constitutional revolution” of Reconstruction transformed the federal system and with it, the language of freedom so central to American political culture. -
Sharecropping
A system where a landowner gives an area of land to someone in exchange for some of the crops that are being grown. -
15th Amendment
Granted that free black were able to vote and The US constitution adopted this in 1870. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.
Contextual purpose: African americans were now being protected by these bills that were passed from 1870 to 1871. -
Slaughterhouse Cases
Slaughterhouse Cases, in American history, legal dispute that resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1873 limiting the protection of the privileges and immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Scalawags
A white southerner who supported reconstruction and the republican party. Often supported reconstruction for their personal profit. term used during the 1870's. Date is used during the 1870's so 1875 is just for the time period. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era in response to civil rights violations to African American. -
Bargain of 1877
Unwritten deal that settled the dispute of the 1876 election, The Union pulled the last troops out of the south. This ended the reconstruction era.
