Reconstruction Key Terms Chp 16

For each of the Key Terms and People: Key Terms and Person
For each below, explain what it was intended to do in regard to Reconstruction. (your own words) EFFECT: for each explain what it actually did or how it affected reconstruction Find or draw an image that symbolizes the term

Section 1 Reconstruction Ten Percent Plan Thirteenth Amendment Freedmens Bureau Andrew Johnson

Section 2 Black Codes Radical Republicans Civil Rights Act of 1866 Fourteenth Amendment Reconstruction Acts impeachment Fifteenth Amendment

Section 3 Hiram Revels Ku Klux Klan Compromise of 1877 poll tax segregation Jim Crow laws Plessy v. Ferguson sharecropping

Sample: Jim Crow Laws Allowed segregation: separate but equal Made it very unequal for African Americans

Reconstruction

Readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union. - South rebuild readmit - fix culture, economy help freedom - violence, cleaver legislation,

Remaking the south without any Slavery

Ten Percent Plan

inequality Offered southerners amnesty, official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion

Wanted to unite the nation as fast as possible, they had to do two things, swear on an oath and to agree that slavery was illegal

Thirteenth Amendment

Made slavery illegal throughout the United States

Slavery ended

Freedmens Bureau

Agency providing relief not only for freed people and certain poor people, but white refugees as well

Andrew Johnson

Vice president

Established more schools in the South. Since laws segregated Slaves to not read or write they finally got a chance to learn. Sworn into office after president Lincoln was assonated

Black Codes

Radical Republicans

Laws greatly limited the freedom of African Americans - the black coder were laws passed by Southern states that limited the new-found freedom of African American. Federal government to force change in the South. African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans

Limited what African Americans were able to do

Change in the south

Civil Rights Act of 1866

All people have the same rights now

Fourteenth Amendment

Reconstruction Acts

Feared Civil Rights Act might be overturned. - The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship to all people born or naturalize within the U.S. Divided the South into five districts

List of Acts so the Civil war wouldnt return

South divided into 5 districts

Impeachment

Used by legislate body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official

Charge of doing something wrong in public

Fifteenth Amendment

Hiram Revels

Gave African American men the right to vote. - The 15th Amendment gave African American man the right to vote. African politician

African men have the right to vote

Became a mister

Ku Klux Klan

Compromise of 1877

Proll tax

Secret society opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans. - The KKK was a secret society opposed to African Americans obtaining civil rights particularly the right to. vote Democrats agreed to accept Hayes victory return they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the South Special tax people had to pay before they could vote

A group that desired to kill African Americans

Federal troops return to the South

Tax people had to pay to vote

Segregation

Forced separation

African Americans & white people are separated

Plessy v. Ferguson

Separate but equal facilities were provided

Equal rights

Sharecropping

Land owners provided the land, tools and supplies, share croppers provided the labor

Shared crops