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Federal troops being withdrawn from the South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