APUSH: Reconstruction after the Civil War

After civil war majority of freed south people work as

tenant farmers

Freedmen Bureau

Providing food, clothing, medical care, and shelter
Establishing schools and promoting education
Helping reunite families separated by slavery
Creating courts to protect the rights of freedmen

Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

10 Percent Plan (Reestablishment of state government after 10 percent of the voters in a state pledged their allegiance to the United States)

Changes Radical Republicans made

Punishment of Confederate leaders (many were temporarily barred from office)
Restrictions on presidential power, especially under Andrew Johnson
Military occupation of the South through the Reconstruction Acts
Enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, granting citizenship and equal protection under the law

Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan

evoke the ordinance of secession and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment

Compromise of 1877

Disputer election of 1876(Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden)resulted in:
Hayes becoming president
Federal troops being withdrawn from the South
The effective end of Reconstruction

Disputed Election of 1876

led to the end of Reconstruction

Ku Klux Klan

a white supremacist terrorist organization founded in 1865 in Tennessee during the early years of Reconstruction

Black Codes

were laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War (beginning in 1865) during Presidential Reconstruction. Their purpose was to restrict the rights and freedoms of newly freed African Americans and maintain a labor force similar to slavery

Jim Crow laws

a series of state and local laws passed in the Southern United States after Reconstruction ended in 1877, lasting into the mid-20th century. These laws enforced racial segregation and denied African Americans equal rights under the law.

sharecropping

system of farming that became widespread in the South during Reconstruction (after the Civil War) and lasted well into the 20th century. It was used primarily by freed African Americans and poor white farmers who didn’t own land.

Carpetbaggers

insult made by white Southerners to a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

Scalawags

an insult made by white Southerners to any white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.

Redeemers

Former souther slave owners and wealthy businessmen who opposed the Republican program of Reconstruction in the South

Presidential Reconstruction

by President Andrew Johnson
lenient code
Southerners passed Black Codes to restrict rights of freedmen