Reconstruction

By hannakate15
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    Lincoln's Reconstruction Period

  • Wade- Davis Bill

    required 50% of a state's white males fake a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union, also states are required to give blacks the right to vote.

  • Black Codes

    were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
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    Presidential/ Johnson Reconstruction Period

  • Special Fields Order(No. 15)

    military orders issued during the war, General William Tecumsech Sherman, giving after Sherman’s march to the Sea

  • 13-15 Amendments

    13.officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery to this day.14.declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens including African Americans.and 15. prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

  • Freedmen's Bureau

    “ Bureau of Fugitives”, established by congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the War

  • Lincoln's Death

    John Wilkes Booth sided with the Union even though he disagreed with those values he needed his career in acting, Ford's Theater
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    Congressional Reconstruction Period

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    passed by congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, it declared that all persons born the the US were now citizens without regard to race or previous conditions

  • Klu Klux Klan

    a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party's Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks.

  • Reconstruction Act

    the acts of Congress during the period from 1865 to 1877 providing for the reorganization of the former Confederate states and setting forth the process by which they were to be restored to representation in Congress.

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    Johnson was impeached because he fired Edwin Stanton (Secretary of War) congress argued it was a violation of the Tenure of Office Act

  • Enforcement Acts

    federal law written to empower the President with the legal authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States

  • Sharecropping

    someone who would farm land that belonged to a landowner. The sharecropping family would plow, plant, weed, and harvest the land. However, they would only keep a small share of the crop, while the landowner would get the rest.

  • Slaughterhouse Cases

    legal dispute that resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1873 limiting the protection of the privileges and immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. ...By a five-to-four majority, the Court ruled against the other slaughterhouses.

  • Scalawags

    any Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedman and the carpetbagger in support of Republican Party policies

  • bargain of 1877

    was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.