Reconstruction Era

Radical Republicans

Part of the republican party that fought to abolish slavery. Believed Lincoln was being too easy on the south. Want to punish southerners. Want to provide protection with the Union soldiers across the south. Made the Wade Davis Bill

13^th Amendment

Ended slavery

14^th Amendment

Guaranteed full citizenship & rights to everyone born in the US, including former slaves.

15^th Amendment

Guaranteed that no male could be denied the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who move south to make money.

Scalawags

Southerner who supports the Union

Freedmen’s Bureau

Helps former slaves with schools, getting jobs, and housing.

Sharecropping

Landowner lets farmer farm on their land, as long as they receive some of the crops. Many former slaves work on plantations. Similar to slavery.

Compromise of 1877

Democrats agree not to dispute results. All troops pulled out of the south. The age of reconstruction is over. Democrats would support Hayes as long as the republicans removed the confederate military, one southerner to Hayes cabinet, new railroad through the south, industrialize the south, and the south to deal with african americans by themselves.

Grandfather Clause

A law that has been changed with certain exceptions

Abraham Lincoln

Wants to welcome back the south “with malice towards none”. Called the 10% plan. 10% of a state’s voters must pledge loyalty to the U.S and support emancipation.

Andrew Johnson

Takes office after Lincoln’s assassination. Issues his own new plan. Calls for state conventions to repeal secession. Eventually allows southern states to rejoin Union. Impeached for fighting with Radical Republicans who thought he was too lenient.

Hiram Revels

First black American Senator

Ulysses S. Grant

Elected president in 1868

Rutherford B. Hayes

Republican candidate for president in 1876. Won presidency. Won 165 electoral votes.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Takes power in southern states during the Jim Crow Era.

Jim Crow Era

Racial segregation in America from 1870’s to 1960’s. Mostly in the south.