Unit 11 Reconstruction Notes

Free 1865

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Citizens 1867 (Excluded Native American Indians)

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Vote 1870

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

vetoed the Civil Rights Act but Radical Republicans overrode his veto.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Hiram Revels

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

Wanted to punish the South tried passing the :Wade-Davis Bill (lincoln Vetoed)

• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• Radical Republicans
• Sharecropping

1865-1877 rebuilding of the government in the south

• Corruption
• Reconstruction
• Amnesty
• Segregation

Set up to protect former slaves & find jobs & schools.

• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Sharecropping
• Segregation
• Lynching

Laws passed by southern states to control free men and women.

• Impeach:
• Amnesty
• Black Codes
• Override

The granting of a pardon to a large number of people.

• Impeach:
• Amnesty
• Black Codes
• Override

To reject or defeat something that has already been decided.

• Impeach:
• Amnesty
• Black Codes
• Override