This Amendment forbids any state from denying suffrage (right to vote) on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)

• 12TH

• 13TH

• 14TH

• 15TH

This Amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the country and the state they live in; guaranteed equal protection of laws to all citizens

• 12TH

• 13TH

• 14TH

• 15TH

This group of Republicans wanted to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves and wanted to punish the South for the damage caused by the Civil War

• ABOLITIONIST

• FREEDMAN

• RADICAL REPUBLICANS

• REFORMERS

This famous Act had two main provisions: 1) It made blacks citizens of the U.S., which overturned the famous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision 2) Created federal guarantees of civil rights and superseded any state laws that limited them – basically outlawing the black codes

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 13^th Amendment

• Enforcement Acts

• “Jim Crow” Laws

This former Union Civil War General ran as a Republican and won the 1868 Presidential Election easily because blacks overwhelmingly voted for him. He was President from 1869-1877

• WILLIAM SHERMAN

• STONEWALL JACKSON

• ROBERT E LEE

• U.S GRANT

This federal agency, headed up by former Union Civil War General Oliver O. Howard, was created to help the newly freed slaves in making the transition from slavery to freedom; giving them food, clothing, education, and shelter

• Forgiveness Bureau

• Debt Peonage

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Embellishment AGENCY

This Act divided the 10 southern states that had yet to be readmitted into the Union into five military districts. These military districts were under the command of former Union generals and had 200,000 Union soldiers stationed in the South

• Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Constitutional Amendment Act of 1868

• “Ten Percent Plan”

• KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT

Northern Republicans who traveled down South during Reconstruction to obtain black votes and money, along with helping blacks to vote; Southerners saw them as invaders

• Scalawags

• “Radical” Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

• LEGION OF THE “New South”

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued this Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which according to its terms, as soon as a percentage of a state’s voters took a loyalty/allegiance oath to the Union, abolished slavery, and provided education for African Americans, Lincoln planned to readmit that state back into the Union

• “Radical”Reconstruction

• Reconstruction Era

• “Ten Percent Plan”

• “Twenty Percent” Plan

What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?

• Deciduous Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Wistful Whigs
• Fancy Federalists