USH Reconstruction only

Period of history from the end of the Civil War to 1877, during which time the North attempted to reintegrate the seceding southern states back into the US.

• Reconstruction

• Compromise Period

• Integration

• Jim Crow Period

He became president after the death of Abraham Lincoln. This ineffective president also became the first president to be impeached in US history.

• Andrew Johnson

• Samuel J Tilden

• William Jefferson Clinton

• Ulysses S Grant

This is the process by which a sitting US president can be forced to give up his elected position. It is generally used when presidents break the law while in office.

• Impeachment

• Vote of No Confidence

• Congressional Removal

• Pink Slip

This was the name of Lincoln's plan to reintegrate the seceding states. It reflected Lincoln's view of preserving the Union, but was viewed as too lenient by Lincoln's political party.

• 10 percent plan

• Radical Reconstruction

• All or Nothing Plan

• Southern Amnesty Plan

These were members of Lincoln's party that wanted to punish the South for starting the war and make it impossible for them to recover enough to secede again.

• Radical Republicans

• War Hawks

• Copperheads

• Freedmen Party

This amendment was added the Constitution after the Civil War. It abolished slavery in the United States.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

This amendment added to the Constitution granted full citizenship to former slaves and gave them equal protection under the law (Equal Protection Clause)

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

This amendment to the Constitution prohibited the restriction of voting rights for former slaves.

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

This system of labor replaced slavery in the American South after the Civil War. Under it, workers were given land in exchange for a part of their harvest every year.

• Sharecropping

• Timeshare

• Split farming

• Tenant farming

This city in North Carolina successfully integrated former slaves back into society and was a model city in the South. In 1898, the city government was overthrown by an angry mob.

• Wilmington

• Raleigh

• Myrtle Beach

• Chapel Hill