Reconstruction Era Flashcards

Flashcards for Reconstruction Era vocabulary, map, individual identification, and reconstruction plans.

Amnesty

Official pardon.

Black Codes

Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.

Carpetbaggers

Northern born Republicans that move to the South.

Fifteenth Amendment

Gave African American men the right to vote.

Fourteenth Amendment

Gave African Americans citizenship.

Freedmen's Bureau

Agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South.

Impeachment

Process of bringing charges of wrong doing against a public official.

Jim Crow Laws

Laws that enforced segregation in the South.

Ku Klux Klan

Opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans.

Plessy v. Ferguson

"Separate-but-equal" decision in regards to segregation.

Poll Tax

Special tax that people had to pay before they could vote.

Radical Republicans

Wanted the federal government to force change in the South.

Reconstruction

Readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union, lasted from 1865-1877.

Reconstruction Acts

Divided the South into five districts.

Scalawags

White southern Republicans.

Segregation

Forced separation of white and African Americans in public places.

Sharecropping

Sharing the crop.

Ten Percent Plan

Lincoln's plan for reconstruction in which ten percent had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union and agree that slavery was illegal.

Thirteenth Amendment

Made slavery illegal.

Wade-Davis Bill

Had two requirements which were to ban slavery and have a majority take an oath of loyalty. Lincoln would veto this.

Military District 1

Virginia

Military District 2

North Carolina and South Carolina

Military District 3

Alabama, Georgia, and Florida

Military District 4

Arkansas and Mississippi

Military District 5

Texas and Louisiana

Abraham Lincoln

President of United States, assassinated 1865

Andrew Johnson

Became president after Lincoln was assassinated, Radical Republicans tried to impeach him

John Wilkes Booth

Shot Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant

Became the 18th president, known for scandal throughout

Radical Republican's Plan for Reconstruction

50% of the state's population had to swear an oath of allegiance, abolish slavery, and former rebels would be punished.