Civil War Reconstruction

Northerners who went to the South to take advantage of the Southerners were called

Johnson's plan for reconstruction

Lincoln's plan for reconstruction: any state that was readmitted had to make slavery illegal

Why did the South need to be rebuilt after the Civil War?

Public lynchings by the KKK were used to intimidate African Americans.

15th Amendment

President Rutherford B. Hayes officially ended Reconstruction by removing troops from the South

Southern states wanted to get around the laws passed by Congress, so they began to pass:

When someone works the land owned by another person and receives a share of the crops

Many of the changes to equal rights were kept the same after Reconstruction.

The purpose of Reconstruction was to:

Federal troops occupied much of the South during Reconstruction.

14th Amendment

Many people wanted the South to be punished for leaving the Union.

Congress' plan for Reconstruction bascially

The southerners didn't like that the northerners were getting rich off of their troubles.

White southerners had control over the sharecroppers and were able to gain political control.

Some Northerners moved to the South during Reconstruction to try and make money.

The Freedmen's Bureau was set up by the Federal Government

13th Amendment