Reconstruction 1865-1877 - Time4Learning Social Studies - 5th grade

Reconstruction

A plan to bring the Confederate states back into the Union.

Republican

Most of the new voters in the South registered with this political party.

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved to the south after the Civil War. They were supportive of the rights of newly freed slaves.

Compromise of 1877

Under this agreement the Southern states had the right to control their own affairs. The Democrats had to accept Rutherford B. Hayes as president, which settled the dispute over the presidential election between Hayes and Tilden. This agreement allowed Democrats to gain control of the South. This agreement also required that Carpetbaggers be removed from the South.

Freedman

former slaves

federal troops

After six years of the KKK terrorizing African American people of the South, Congress passed a law that gave this group the right to fight against the KKK.

Southern Democrats and carpetbaggers

After the Civil War, these groups did not have similar political ideas.

Andrew Johnson

After the assassination of Lincoln, this Democrat was sworn in as president. This president was responsible for reconstructing the country. He had to create a reconstruction plan after Lincoln died, because Lincoln had not completed the plan before his death. This president did not have political experience prior to becoming president.

Southerners

Before and immediately after the Civil War, most of these people believed that everyone had his place in society.

amendments

Changes to the Constitution

President Johnson

Congressman trying to impeach this president, claimed that he unlawfully fired certain federal officials.

Samuel Tilden

He lost the presidential election after receiving the most of the popular votes. 3 states submitted 2 sets of election results, with different winners lists. They held a special election commission to decide the winner.

Nathan B. Forrest

He still supported the old ways of the South after losing the Civil War. He was the founder of the Klu Klux Klan.

Edwin M. Stanton

He was a Radical Republican and the Secretary of War until 1868, when President Johnson fired him. Congress wanted to impeach President Johnson for firing him because they said he didn't have the right to fire him. The House of Representatives passed the bill to impeach the President, but the bill failed in the Senate by only one vote.

Rutherford B. Hayes

He was became president after the presidential election resulted in Tilden receiving the most popular votes. But a special election commission was held to recognize him as president. He had the support of Radical Republicans.

compromise his beliefs

It was difficult to be president of the United States after the Civil War because The President frequently had to do this to keep the Union together.

Black Codes

Laws that limited the rights of African Americans. One of which was a rule that African Americans could not meet in unsupervised groups. These laws also denied African Americans the right to bear arms and limited their rights to be on a jury.

Ulysses S. Grant

President Johnson and this president were the main leaders involved in reuniting the United States after the Civil War.

1865

President Johnson was sworn into office, although he did not win an election in this year.

The Klu Klux Klan

The Compromise of 1877 did not help former slaves gain the support of local law enforcement because many Southern local law enforcement officers were members of this group. The members of this group were also Democrats.

Native Americans living on tribal lands

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to these people.

Hannibal Hamlin

The freedman would have voted for Abraham Lincoln and this man, had they been allowed to vote in the 1861 election.

black codes and 1875 Civil Rights Act

These laws written during Reconstruction were later found to be unconstitutional.

White supremacists

These people believed that white people were superior to African Americans. They believed that African Americans should not have the same rights as whites.

Civil War and Compromise of 1877

These two events happened when the Southern states tried to secede from the Union.

Johnson and Hayes

These two presidents compromised their positions when under pressure from the southern states. They were also each became president without winning the popular vote.

John Wilkes Booth

This Southerner assassinated Abraham Lincoln because he has seeing revenge against Lincoln and the North.

Civil Rights Act of 1875

This act guaranteed African Americans the same rights as all other citizens.

assassination

This action resulted in Andrew Johnson being appointed president of the United States.

Thirteenth Amendment

This amendment abolished slavery in the United States. It granted African Americans the rights to freedom.

Fifteenth Amendment

This amendment allowed former male slaves the right to vote.

Fourteenth Amendment

This amendment granted equal protection of the laws to all people born in the United States. This amendment made discrimination illegal.

Republicans / Democrats

This group controlled Congress before the Civil War, and this group controlled it after 1874.

Radical Republicans

This group demanded that the Southern states meet stricter requirements for rejoining the Union.

Radical Republicans

This group supported the Fifteenth Amendment because many Northern states still barred African Americans from voting.

Congress

This group tired to control the South during the 15 years after the Civil War by passing amendments to the Constitution, the Reconstruction Act and the Civil Rights Act.

Klu Klux Clan

This group was originally organized to stop African Americans from voting. The group was founded in the 1870's and still exists today. The group was formed as a reaction to President Johnson beginning the Reconstruction plan.

Reconstruction Act / Compromise of 1877

This law gave federal troops the right to patrol the south, while this one sent them away.

The Freedmen's Burea

This organization set up schools for former slaves. They also tried to help free blacks to obtain land.

Abraham Lincoln

This president received most of the popular votes in the 1861 presidential election.

Tennessee

This state was excluded fro the division of the south and home of the founders of the KKK.

Fourteenth Amendment and 1875 Civil Rights Act

To a newly freed slave, these laws were the most important during the 1860's and 1870's.

Scalawags

White Southerners who voted with the Republicans. They supported the rights of former slaves.