US History Reconstruction Era

13th Amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Freed all slaves living in the rebelling states.

14th Amendment

• Granted citizenship to everyone born or naturalized in the US

15th Amendment

• Guaranteed voting rights for freedMEN

Freedmen’s Bureau

• Helped freedmen with jobs, reunition with family, food, homes, and clothes

Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan

• TEN PERCENT PLAN

• 10% of state’s voters must pledge loyalty to the US and support Emancipation Proclamation

Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

• Took office after Lincoln’s assassination

• Created his own new plan

• Allowed the states to rejoin the Union

Radical Republicans Reconstruction Plan

• Believed both Lincoln and Johnson were being too easy on the South

• Demanded civil rights for freedmen

• Wanted to provide protection with Union soldiers across the South

Financial Panic of 1873

• A bank failure sparked by post civil war speculative railroad expansion

Challenged Freed People Faced

• KKK

• Poll Taxes

• Grandfather Clause

• Segregation

• Literacy Tests

Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Readmission of Southern states

• Established martial law in the south

• Each state had to write a new constitution

• Each state had to ratify the fourteenth amendment

• Denied many confederate leaders from voting or holding office