The Age Of Reconstruction

The 10% Plan

10% of each Southern States votes were required to pledge loyalty to the U.S and support the Emancipation Proclamation before being readmitted

13th amendment

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the U.S.

14th Amendment

All person’s born or naturalized in the U.S are citizens of the U.S

15th Amendment

The right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied

Radical Republicans

Congressional Republicans who wanted to send Union troops the the South to protect the rights of free blocks

Wade-Davis Bill

Says that 50% of voters in Southern states must take oath of allegiance to the U.S

Andrew Johnson

• Took office after Lincoln’s assassination

• Was impeached

• Called for state conventions to repeal secessions

Scalawag

A Southerner who supported the Union

Carpetbagger

Northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction in order to make money

Freedmen’s Bureau

Helped former enslaved people with school, food, and medical care

Ku Klux Klan

Former Confederate soldiers who terrorized black people across the south

Sharecropping

Similar to old plantation systems, freed black people ended up working plantations again for little money

Black Codes

Laws passed in the South that limited the rights of free black people

Ulysses S. Grant

• Elected U.S president in 1868

• Advocated for the rights of freed slaves

Robert E. Lee

Urged the Southerners to reconcile with the Union

June 19th, 1865

• Emancipation Proclamation was 2 years old

• 13th Amendment had already been written

• Confederate Army had already surrendered

• Union soldiers arrived in Texas and freed the last remaining 250,000 black people

Corrupt Bargain

Election Boards fixed the results of the 1876 election so that Republican Hayes won

Compromise of 1877

• All union troops were pulled out of the South

• Democrats in Congress agreed not to dispute 1876 election results

• Marked the end of Reconstruction

Jim Crow

An era in which white supremacists took power across the South, segregation in southern states found ways to strip free blacks of rights