Reconstruction

Abraham Lincoln

-1st President of Reconstruction

-10% Plan of loyalty

-No punishment

Samuel Tilden

-Democrat in the 1877 election

-Won the disputed votes

-Agreed to lose if troops got removed

Hiram Rhodes Revels

1st African American Senator

Andrew Johnson

-Second president during Reconstruction after Lincoln Assassination

-Racist and favored the South

-Required South to repeal succession to be readmitted

-Almost impeached for fighting with Radical Republicans

Ulysses S. Grant

-3rd president during reconstruction

-Former Union general

-Favored freedmen's rights

Rutherford B Hayes

-4th President during reconstruction

-Chosen by Congress in the disputed election of 1877

-Republican

-Agreed to remove troops from South in return

-Credited with the end of Reconstruction

Carpetbagger

Northerner who moved South to take advantage of the chaos and make money.

Scalawag

Southerner who sided with the North

Ku Klux Klan

Terrorist Social Club dedicated to scaring freedmen from voting by threatening, injuring, and killing them and their supporters

Radical Republicans

Political group that wanted to punish confederates and protect freedmen rights

Sharecropping

Freedmen and poor whites agree to farm on someone’s land and provide a portion of crops in exchange. Often got caught in a cycle of dept, called “Modern Slavery”

Black Codes

Laws passed to limit and control freedmen's life's and rights. Enforced things like segregation.

Freedmen’s Bureau

-Education

-Reunite Families

-Food, clothing, shellter

13th Amendment

-1865

-Abolished slavery

14th Amendment

-1867

-Established Citizenship

15th Amendment

-1870

-Established voting rights

Financial Panic of 1873

-Railroads took longer and cost more than investor banks expected

-Banks lost money

-People lost money and took money out of banks

-Distracted the government from Reconstruction

Freedmen’s Challenges

-KKK

-Grandfather Clause

-Poll Tax

-Literacy Tests

Grandfather Clause

Said if your grandfather could vote before the war, you did not have to test or tax to vote

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Split the South into 5 military districts