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Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
-It addressed a new state of gov, property laws and slavery. -
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Reconstruction Timeline
US history class -
Wade-Davis Bill
At the end of the Civil War, this bill created a framework for Reconstruction and get rid of the confederacy. -
Klu Klux Klan
Originally for a former confederate social club, then led to terrorist organization. Targeted blacks -
Special Field Order 15
Military orders issued during American Civil War. -
Scalawags
White southern republicans and were the biggest group of delegates to the Radical Reconstruction-era legislatures. -
Black Codes
Laws passed with the intention of resisting the african americans’ freedom and earned low wages. -
Freedman's Bureau
Congress helped millions of former black slaves and white poors in the South at the end of the Civil War. -
Lincoln’s Death
Famous actor assassinated Lincoln at Ford’s theatre in Washington D.C. -
13th Amendment
Abolition of slavery -
Civil Rights Bill
Banned discrimination in public places, equal schooling and employment discrimination is illegal. -
“Great Constitutional Revolution” by Carl Shurz
Transformed federal system and the language of freedom so central to American political culture. -
Reconstruction Act
Laid out process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. -
14th Amendment
Provided formal slaves with national citizenship. -
Sharecropping
Landowner allows tenant to use use the land in return for a share of the crops from their portion of the land. -
15th Amendment
Black men have the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
3 laws passed protecting African Americans right to vote, to hold office, to serve in juries and lawful equality. -
Slaughterhouse Cases
Law passed to ban slaughtering in certain states. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Federal law passed in response to civil rights violations to African American by making them equal. -
Radical Republicans End
Fraction of republicans committed to emancipation of the slaves and equality of free slaves. -
Bargain
informal, unwritten that settled dispute of 1876 US presidential election. Resulted in the US pulling lasts’ troops out of the South and ended the reconstruction era.
