Reconstruction Vocab

the rebuilding of the south after the Civil War

• Reconstruction

• 10% Plan

• Ku Klux Klan Plan

• Radicalism

10% of a state’s population swore an oath to the United States, the voters could organize a new State Government.

• Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction

• Lincoln's 10% Plan for Reconstruction

• Grant's Plan for Reconstruction

• Radical Reconstruction

to grant forgiveness - Refers to Lincoln’s plan for Confederate Soldiers who took an oath to the Union.

• Freedom of Speech

• First Amendment

• Bill of Rights

• Amnesty

Passed by Congress - strict plan for Reconstruction. Required 50% of the states' voters to sign a loyalty oath before the state could return to the United States. Never signed into law by Abraham Lincoln.

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Wade Davis Bill

• Radical Reconstruction

enslaved men and women who had been freed with the end of the Civil War

• Emancipated men

• Freedman

• Freedman's Bureau

• Sharecroppers

Confederate sympathizer who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

• David Lee Roth

• John Wilkes Booth

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• Andrew Johnson

vice-president and successor to Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S Grant

• Robert E Lee

ended slavery in the United States

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

gave citizenship to African Americans

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

granted African Americans the Right to Vote

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment