Reconstruction

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What amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.?

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13th Amendment

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What amendment said all persons born in the United States...excluding Indians not taxed...." were citizens and were to be given "full and equal benefit of all laws?

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14th Amendment

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What amendment gave African-American men the right to vote?

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15th Amendment

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What President was impeached?

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Andrew Johnson

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What was the Ten Percent Plan?

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Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.

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What were scalawags?

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southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War

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What is a radical Republican?

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a member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.

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What is a radical Reconstruction

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plan designed to punish the Southern states for seceding from the Union. Most historians believe it set the ground-work for segregation and other injustices that brought on the civil rights movement. Furthermore, many also believe that the problems are still with the country today.

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What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

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a Federal agency charged with helping to manage and ease the transition from slavery to freedom.

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What are elements of reconstruction?

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Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Outlined how each Southern state would be readmitted to the Union
Congress passed the Freedman's Bureau ( to help southern blacks get on their feet)
Adopted 13th - 14th - 15th amendments
The economy was designed to become more industrial than farm
Public schools were set up in each state

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What are black codes?

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laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War. These laws restricted African Americans' freedom and compelled them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.

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What is a carpetbagger?

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a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

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What is a sharecropper?

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a farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

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What is a contract labor system?

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work on the plantation for a year in return for pay

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Was reconstruction a success?

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Reconstruction was only a little successful.

Success:

* the North and South were once again reunited

* all southern state abolished slavery in their constitutions

failed in most other ways:

*former Confederate officials and slave owners gradually returned to power

* Southern states passed “black codes”

* Southern states imposed voter qualifications

*the sharecropping system was allowed to thrive, which kept blacks poor

* conservative Supreme Court aided southern Democrats by effectively repealing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1875

*violations of blacks’ civil rights were ignored. Ultimately, the rights promised to blacks during Reconstruction would not be granted fully for almost another century.

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Who is John Wilkes Booth?

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John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865

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Who was Lincoln's vice president?

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Hannibal Hamlim first term

Andrew Johnson second term (when Lincoln was shot)

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When did women get vote?

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1920 - 19th amendment

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Who was radical reconstruction meant to punish?

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South