Tidwell Reconstruction

Ida B. Wells; educator

_____ ____ _________ was a former slave born in to slavery who grew up to be an ________. She fights for black education.

Du Bois; The Souls of Black Folk

_____ ______ was an African American educator who is best known for his book ________ _________ _____ _______ ______. he fights for black education and helped fund Associations

Black Codes; restricted

________ _________ are laws passed by southern states that ________________ the freedoms of former slaves.

Bucker T. Washington

_________ _____ _________ was an African American dedicated to prommoting education for blacks

Election of 1868; Grant; corrupt

__________ ____ ________ in the republican Party nominated former Army General U.S. __________ for president. In a fairly close election, Grant won the race. Through Grant himself was a man of integrity, his administration was the most __________ in U.S. history to that time.

Literacy test; read

___________ _______ was a test you had to pass which in theory would show that you know the Constitution in able to vote. It denies most of the slaves to vote because many of them could not ________ or write.

Fifteenth Amendment

___________ ___________ would grant the right to vote to former slaves.

Congress; Republicans; Democrats; withdrawn; Cabinet; funds

___________ created an electoral commission to decide what was to be done. The Commission was made up of 8 _____________ and 7 ______________ the result being a Republican victory but only after the Republicans promised several things to gain southern Democratic support. All federal troops would be ____________ from the South. The President would appoint at least one southerner to the ___________. Congress would appropriate _________ for internal improvements in the South.

Tenure in Office Act 1867; Johnson; impeaching

____________ ________ ____________ ___________ ________ was passed by Congress in order to prevent President ____________ from removing from his cabinet; anyone who supported congressional reconstruction and it would be used as the basis for _____________ Johnson once he fired Secretary Stanton

Civil Rights Act of 1866; citizenship

____________ _________ _______ ____ _________ will grant ____________ and the same rights enjoyed by white citizen to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."

Radical Republican Congressional Reconstruction Plan; military; loyalty

____________ ____________ ____________ _____________ ______________ In 1864 Congress passed the Wade Davis Bill which proposed putting the south under ___________ rule and required a majority of state's voters to take the ________ oath as a condition for the state's readmission. President Lincoln voted this legislation using the pocket veto.

Fourteenth Amendment

_____________ ___________ would grant citizenship to the former slaves and guarantee equal protection under the law

Liberal Republicans; Radical Republicans

_____________ _____________ were a group of Republican congressmen that were opposed to the ____________ ___________ in Congress and their methods of reconstruction at the end of reconstruction.

Scalawag; Southerner

_____________ was a term used to describe a ____________ who supported the reconstruction governments of the South

1869; 1870

Fifteenth Amendment was passed in _______ and ratified on February 3, ________

1866; 1868

Fourteenth Amendment passed in the Senate on June 8, ________. It was ratified on July 11, ________

Congress; northern; elections; voters; Confederacy; equal; Fourteenth

In 1867 after Radical Republicans had gained the majority in __________ the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 was passed. This act included the following terms: The South was to be divided into 5 military districts and put under military rule governed by a _________ general. The southern states were to hold new ___________ for delegates to create new state constitutions. Southern states were required to allow all qualified male __________, including African Americans, to vote in elections. Southerners who had served the _____________ were barred from voting. Southern states were required to guarantee __________ rights to all citizens. Southern states were required to ratify the ______________ Amendment.

Wade Davis Bill; majority; participation; military

The _________ ________ _______ was congresses response to President Lincoln's 10% Plan. This bill called for a ___________ of the southern electorate to take an oath of allegiance to the union before that state could resume ____________ in the Union and it called for the southern states to be divide into 5 __________ districts with a union general in charge of each district.

Grandfather Laws; slaves

The _________ _________ changed the literacy test meaning, if your grandfather voted, you would be allowed to vote. This affected former _________ too because their grandfathers couldn't vote

Freedman's Bureau; Congress; whites; education

The ____________ _____________ was created by ____________ to help the former slaves' transition from slavery into participation in society. This was a very successful organization and would not only help former slaves but also the poor ________ of the south. The organization would provide temporary shelter, food, and clothing as well as ______________ for many in the south. Its greatest success was in the founding of schools for former slaves and their children throughout the south.

Election of 1876; Rutherford B. Hays; lead; concede; Republican; Compromise of 1877

The ______________ ____ _________. In the election of 1876, the Democratic candidate for president was Samuel Tilden and the Republican candidate was ______________ ____ __________. The election produced a situation that almost caused another civil war. Though Tilden held a huge ________ in electoral votes, the Republican Party refused to _________ defeat. They claimed that the vote was disputed in 4 states. Tilden needed only 1 more electoral vote to gain the victory but the three southern states were controlled by _____________ election boards that threw out enough Tilden votes to give Hayes the election. This caused the uproar that almost brought about a new civil war. It resulted in the ___________ ____ ________

1865

Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in _________

Johnson's Presidential Plan; Southerners; 20,000; constitutional convention; void; election

______________ _____________ __________ issued a plan of reconstruction very similar to that of Lincoln's. Under this plan, the following was required: _____________ who swore allegiance to the Union were to be pardoned expecting those same categories as Lincoln and adding to it. Anyone who owned property worth more than __________ dollars (though even these could apply for a special presidential pardon). Each state was to hold a ___________ ___________ to write a new state constitution. States were required in these constitutions to ________ their charters of secession, abolish slavery, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. Southern states must then hold __________ and resume participation in the Union.

Thirteenth Amendment

______________ _____________ would outlaw slavery anywhere in the U.S. and it's territories or place subject to its jurisdiction.

Carpetbagger; Northerners

_______________ was used to describe ____________ who came South after the Civil War to take advantage of the reconstruction of the South.

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction; 10; oath; constitutional convention; civil; senior; black

________________ _______ ______________ _______ _______________ (Lincoln's 10% plan) - In 1863, Lincoln issued a proclamation stating that any rebel state could form a Union government whenever: A number equal to ______% of those who had voted in 1860 took an _______ of allegiance to the Constitution and the Union and had received a presidential pardon The state could then hold a ___________ ___________ in which they would have to support laws and proclamations dealing with emancipation. Certain groups were excluded from the pardon including ________ and diplomatic officers of the Confederacy, __________ officers of the Confederate military, judges, congressmen and military officers of the U.S. who had left their federal post to join the Confederacy and those accused of failing to treat captured _________ soldiers and their officers as prisoners of war.