Congressional Reconstruction

President after the Civil War

• George Washington

• Andrew Johnson

• Alexander Hamilton

• James Madison

The period after the Civil War in which the southern states were brought back into the Union.

• Civil War

• Sectionalism

• Treaty of Paris

• Reconstruction

President Lincoln's plan to allow Southern states to reenter the US when 10% of their citizens pledged loyalty to the Union.

• 10% Plan

• The joining

• Reconstruction

• The oath clause

General Sherman's order to give abandoned or confiscated land to freedmen

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Lincolns Speech

• Special Field Order 15

• The Home Alone Plan

Government agency established to help African Americans.

• Black Codes

• Freedmans Bureau

• FBI

• CIA

Constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery in the USA

• 1st Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

Laws after the Civil War that granted a few rights , but overall denied African Americans their civil rights.

• Segregation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• The KKK effect

Passed by congress, it declared that all persons born in the USA were now citizens, without regard to race.

• Civil Rights Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• The 13th Amendment

• The Lincoln Answer

When the President refuses to approve a bill, preventing it from becoming law.

• Veto

• Gerrymandering

• Override

• Judicial Action

two-thirds of both houses of congress can approve a bill without the presidents approval.

• Veto

• Judicial Review

• Override

• Executive Action