Reconstruction

Laws that enforced segregation in the South after Reconstruction

Made to help freedmen built schools, hospitals, gave law advice.

This plan for Reconstruction was perceived to be harsh by the Southern Elite.

True or False. Congress did not want former Confederate soldiers to hold political office.

Which of the following was an effect of Reconstruction on African Americans?

Congress's plan for Reconstruction was consider hard on the South.

They wanted to exercise their rights under 14th Amendment, find families, establish businesses

the end of Reconstruction and African Americans were abandoned by the federal government

They became tenant farmers, voted in line with North, were looked down upon by Elite

carpetbaggers

abolish slavery

Gave all male citizens the right to vote. African Americans could also hold political office

Protected A/A from black codes, built hospitals, school, gave law advice

rebuilding and healing of the US after the Civil War socially, politically, and economically

organization formed to help former slaves to protected the rights of the Freedmen

Came into power after Lincoln's assassination

Laws that enforced segregation in the South after Reconstruction

All male citizens have the right to vote.

was the rebuilding and healing of the country after the Civil War.

Under Lincoln's plan, 10% had to

Regain their lost political power, reestablish cotton establish a new way to farm their land

act that denies an A/ American the ability to be a citizen and have the right to sue the US.

One of the main reasons Congress objected to President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan

rented land from landowners (Southern Elite) and paid their rent with a portion of their crops.

Carpetbaggers

Lincoln's plan for reunion

Scalawags

abolished slavery in 1865.

To preserve the Union and end the Civil War quickly, Abraham Lincoln established the

Scalawags

Major role of the Freedman's Bureau?

Supported the interests of the A/A, some took advantage of the South, called carpetbaggers

During early reconstruction A/A voted and help political offices for the first time.

They came to help freedmen, called Carpetbaggers

People rented land fromlandowners (Southern Elite) and paid their rent with their crops

had to find a new way to work the land, entered sharecropping, regained their political control

Gave African Americans citizenship said no state could deny the equal protection of the law

Ten Percent Plan

resulted in the end of Reconstruction and A/A were abandoned by the federal government

Laws that denied African Americans certain rights such as owning land and taking certain jobs

Rented land from landowners and paid their rent with a portion of their crops

Cooperated with the Republicans, entered tenant farming agreements, called scalawags

was the rebuilding and healing of the country after the Civil War.

all men can vote

14th Amendment

rented land from landowners (Southern Elite) and paid their rent with a portion of their crops.

laws that denied African Americans certain rights such as owning land and taking certain jobs

This forced A/A to become dependent on the landowner for land and credit

gave African Americans citizenship and equal protection of the law to citizens.

Terrorist groups began intimidating freedmen.

The end of Reconstruction and African Americans were abandoned by the federal government.

laws that denied African Americans certain rights such as owning land and taking certain jobs

Preserve the Union as quickly as possible. . .

Terrorist groups began intimidating freedmen

Who did NOT like Congress's plan for Reconstruction?

Abolished slavery in 1865

Gave African Americans citizenship no state could deny the equal protection of the law

wanted to regain political power, make cotton king, return to life as before the Civil War

the Ku Klux Klan

Had to make a new constitution, allow Freedman’s Bureau, 13th amendment, and 14th amendment.

This decision would deny an A/ A the ability to be a citizen and have the right to sue the US.

Reunite with families, establish communities, form churches and exercise their civil rights