APUSH Reconstruction

Who created the 10% Plane

Lincoln

What was the 10% Plan

Amnesty for most ex-confederates

10% of the state must legally take oath

State must approve 13th amendment

Kind to the southern states

Who created the Wade-Davis Bill

Congress

What was the Wade-Davis Bill

Majority of southern state much pledge allegiance

New state governments and be formed only of men who had not taken up arms against the union (very few people)

Disliked by south because it was very harsh

How did Lincoln and Congress react to each others bills for reconstructions

The vetoed them

Who became President after Lincolns assassination and what were his beliefs?

Andrew Johnson

Unionist, very racist, hated succession, allows southern states to easily rejoin america

What were Black Codes

Laws that restricted the rights/freedoms of freed African Americans

What was the Freedman’s Bureau

An organizations that trained and educated African Americans

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 do

Granted former slaves citizenship

What was the relationship between Andrew Johnson and Congress

They hated each other and vetoed many bills, split government

What was the fourteenth amendment

all persons born in the US are citizens

What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do

Divided the south into 5 military districts, each under the command of a US general

Former CSA states had to grant the right to vote to all freed people and deny it to leading ex-confederates

Each military commanders must register all eligible voters (including AA’s), supervise state constitutional conventions and guarantee black suffrage

Each state must ratify14th amendment

Why was Johnson impeached

For violating the Tenure of Office Act (created just to kick him out)

What was the 15th amendment

grants African American males the right to vote

How do women’s rights movements react to the changes in suffrage

They grow upset as they are continually denied suffrage, leads to a rift in the movement

Who owns most land by 1890

Former confederates

Freed blacks are often denied land and most become sharecroppers

How do Republican governments in the south change the culture/government

advance political social and economic needs of AA’s

Many African Americans serve in government

Abolished black codes

expanded rights of married women

improved southern infrastructure and education

What do republicans begin to focus on instead of Reconstruction

The economy

How does President Grant response to increased violence and discrimination in the south

Enforcement Laws

How does the South change towards the end of reconstruction

with decreasing northern presence, southern states stop caring for the needs of African Americans, use violence, cut funding and terminate other reconstruction programs

What did the Slaughterhouse Cases do

scaled back federal responsibility to protect civil and voting rights, gutted 14th amendment