Bell Ringer: Make an inference concerning how women might use the 15th amendment.

LEQ: How will America overcome the short term and long term effects of the Civil War?

Organization created by Congress to help blacks and southern whites uprooted by the war. Freedmen’s Bureau

Ten Percent Plan Lincoln’s Plan When 10% of a states voters had taken oath of loyalty they could organize a new state government Ten Percent Plan

Thaddeus Stevens- believed it was too lenient Opposition

Required a majority of a state’s white male citizens to pledge loyalty Wade-Davis Bill

Wade-Davis Bill Lincoln killed bill with pocket veto Pocket Veto- ignores a bill Wade-Davis Bill

Johnson’s Plan Did not have a percentage requirement Presidential pardon required for those owning property valued at more than $20,000. Johnson’s Plan

Laws that were designed to keep freedmen in a slave like condition. Black Codes

Purpose- to terrorize African Americans and whites who were loyal to the U.S. government. Ku Klux Klan

Radical Republicans Wanted to reshape southern society Wanted freed slaves to have economic opportunity and political participation Radical Republicans

Gave African Americans citizenship and benefits of all laws that affected white citizens Civil Rights Act

Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in U.S. Fourteenth Amendment

Divided south into 5 military districts under control of the U.S. army Reconstruction Acts

Johnson’s Impeachment Impeachment- the process set fourth in the Constitution for charging the president with a crime. Johnson’s Impeachment

To ensure that males were not denied right to vote based on race. Fifteenth Amendment