11. Reconstruction

Series of laws that were enacted in various Southern states after the Civil War to limit the newfound freedom of Black Americans.

• Black codes

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Sharecropping

A system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crops.

• Black codes

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Sharecropping

A white Southerner who sided with the Northerners and the soldiers who occupied the South during Radical Reconstruction and profited from Reconstruction

• Black codes

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Sharecropping

A Northerner who came to the South during Reconstruction to profit.

• Black codes

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Sharecropping

1. Most Southerners would be granted amnesty if they swore loyalty to the Union.

2. Confederate officials could receive a pardon if they appealed directly to the President.

3. The states must also ratify the 13th Amendment.

• Lincoln's Plan

• Johnson's Plan

• Radical Republican's Plan

1. The former Confederacy will be broken up into 5 military districts.

2. Former Confederate leaders are banned from playing a role in state governments.

3. New state constitutions must be written.

4. States must ratify the 14th Amendment.

• Lincoln's Plan

• Johnson's Plan

• Radical Republican's Plan

1. Only 10% of a state’s population must swear loyalty to the Union.

2. States were required to write a new state constitution that banned slavery.

3. Amnesty would be granted to Southerners who swore loyalty to the Union.

4. Make Reconstruction as painless as possible.

• Lincoln's Plan

• Johnson's Plan

• Radical Republican's Plan

Amendment to the Constitution that legally forbade slavery

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Granted African American men the right to vote

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Declared all people, except indigenous people, who were born in the United States were citizens and were entitled to equal rights regardless of race.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th