Thesis
The goals of Reconstruction had been to unite the nation, reconstruct the Southern, and protect and help the freedmen. Although there ended up being initial success, Reconstruction had been a deep failing as Redeemer Governments created racist rules therefore the KKK terrorized freedmen.
Topic Sentence 1
Andrew Johnson utilized the 10% Arrange Lincoln proposed to reunite the southern states with all the North.
First Paragraph Terms
10% Arrange, Wade-Davis Bill, Andrew Johnson, 13th Amendment
Topic Sentence 2
The creation of Freedmens Bureau assisted rebuild the south, also, protect and help blacks.
Second Paragraph Terms
Freedmens Bureau, 14th and 15th Amendments, Union League, Woman's Loyal League, Unique Field purchase No. 15, Reconstruction Act
3rd Paragraph Terms
Topic Sentence 3
Reconstruction failed in protecting blacks and limited their governmental and financial possibilities.
Wade-Davis Bill
pocket vetoed by Lincoln, proposed by Congress, 50% commitment to be readmitted
!0per cent Plan
Johnson used to reunite the nation, required 10per cent of loyalty for state to be readmitted to the US
13th Amendment
freed the slaves
Andrew Johnson
disenfranchised voters, and pardoned southerners from Civil War crimes
Freedmen
instantly seemed because of their families divided during slavery
Freedmen's Bureau
attemptedto offer meals, clothing, and medicine to freedmen, but was just able to successfully provide education
Women's Loyal League
supplied materials for females to help in war
Union League
governmental club for blacks, gave blacks chance to be elected into workplace
14th Amendment
gave blacks civil legal rights
fifteenth Amendment
black colored voting liberties
Special Field Purchase No. 15
promised freed slaves land, couldn't work
threatened and intimidated blacks
Redeemer governments
created racist rules, had more energy after Reconstruction Act ended
Black codes
freedmen couldn't rent or possess land causing sharecroppers
Jim Crow Laws
developed literacy tests, and a poll taxation, to limit blacks from voting but created the grandfather clause therefore poor whites could vote
Reconstruction Act
Divide the south into five parts and sent troops every single area, protected freedmen
Carpetbaggers
Northerners whom stumbled on Southern and attemptedto begin companies, killed by KKK
Scalawags
individuals who supported the North during the civil war, assaulted by KKK not killed
Sharecroppers
freedmen worked on previous owners land, and got a tiny portion of their own, constantly in debt could never keep
