1. Chapter 23 Reconstruction Era

2. 22.1 Introduction
April 14, 1865 – ________________ was _______________________ while attending a ____________ at _______________’s Theater
__________________ by John ______________ Booth because thought would ___________ the ______________________
VP Andrew _______________ became the new ______________________
______________________ – rebuilding the _______________ and bringing Southern ________________ back to the ________________

3. 22.2 Presidential Reconstruction
___________________ Amendment – Abolished _______________
The Freedmen’s Bureau:
Provided ____________ and ________________ care in the _________________
Built ________________ for __________________
Forth Acres and a Mule:
Thaddeus __________________ asked _______________ to break apart the South’s large ______________________ and give every ______________ slave “_____ acres and a _________”
Congress did not support his _____________ was in ________________ of ______________________

4. Used to ________________ former _________________ Served 3 purposes:
The Black Codes:
Used to ________________ former _________________
Served 3 purposes:
_________________ out the rights of the _________________ (could _____________, own ________________, work for _______________, sue in _________________)
Help __________________ find ________________ to replace __________________
Keep freedmen at the __________________ of the social ________________ in the South (________________________)

5. Questions Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Who assassinated Lincoln? Why?
Who replaced Lincoln’s presidency?
What was Reconstruction?
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
How did the Freedmen’s Bureau help former slaves?
What did Thaddeus Stevens want to give every freed slave as payment for unpaid labor?
What were the three purposes served by the Black Codes?

6. 22.3 Congressional Reconstruction
Civil Rights Act of 1866 – declared ___________________ to be full ____________________ with the same _____________ as whites
Johnson _________________ the bill as _________________________
The Fourteenth Amendment:
Declared former _________________ to be citizens with ___________ civil ________________
Johnson _________________ amendment, but ___________________ controlled _________________ and voted it in

7. Military Reconstruction Act:
Divided _________________ into 5 _________________ districts governed by a _________________ and backed by __________________ troops
New state _________________ set up under __________________ considered ______________
New ____________________ formed by _____________ southerners to the _____________
Command of the Army Act – limited _________________’s power over the ____________

8. Tenure of Office Act – stopped __________________ from ________________ without ________________ consent
Johnson ________________ felt what they were doing was _________________________
To prove point ______________ one of the ___________________ protected under the ______________ of ________________ Act

9. Impeachment of Johnson:
Only ______________ was opposing ____________
__/__’s Senate has to find president _______________ to __________________ him from _______________
Johnson escaped _______________ by ______ vote
Sharecropping:
Former _______________ wanted ____________
Former ________________ needed ____________
Planters _______________ land and rented to ____________________ farmers
Tenants paid ___________ by sharing 1/3 or _____ of their _____________ raised on the ___________

10. Few _______________ ever earned ______________ to pay __________ what they ____________
_____________________ led to a _________________ of _________________ and _____________ instead of ___________________________

11. Questions
What bill was designed by Congress declaring that freedmen were to be full citizens with the same rights as whites?
What amendment was created from the act above?
What part of Johnson’s Reconstruction plan was declared illegal?
What did Johnson do to prove his point that what Congress was being unconstitutional?
The House of Representatives did what in response to Johnson after he challenged them?
How much of the Senate is needed in order to find a president guilty in order to remove him from office?
What is sharecropping?
What was the result for freedmen who participated in sharecropping?

12. 22.4 The Southern Reconstruction
The South’s New Voters:
___________________, White ______________ who opposed the war and People from the _________________ who moved to the south after the ____________
The 1868 Election:
Because _________________Americans voted, Ulysses S. ______________ became _____________________
____________________ knew to stay in the _________________ House they need A.A
The 15th Amendment:
Gave every ____________ a right to ____________

13. New State Constitutions:
Set up new _____________ in the states: right to ____________, no prison for ___________ and public __________________ for all
New State Government:
State ________________ were ran mostly by ______________________; some were _________________ Americans
African Americans in Office:
________of leaders were African ______________________

14. 22.5 The End of Reconstruction
___________________ were mad about the new ___________ and the raising of ___________
They were really ___________ because formers _________________ were now setting ___________ for them to _________________
White Terrorism:
Ku ___________ Klan was ________________ to stop African Americans from gaining ______________
They would ________________, beat , and even ______________ African Americans
The Enforcement Acts:
Congress passed ____ laws to _________________ people from ______________ others to vote

15. The Amnesty Act of 1872:
The South wanted _______________ so they could _____________ on with their ___________
___________________ of Past _________________
The Disputed Election of 1876:
There was a _________________ in the _________________ because the South wanted the _________________ to win and the Republicans won by a _____________________
The Compromise of 1877:
_____________ stayed president and the South got to get _______________ of their own ___________
The ___________ again took all of the ______________ for _________________ individuals

16. Questions What 3 groups were allowed to vote in the South?
Which group of people was considered to be scalawags? Why?
Which group of people was considered to be carpetbaggers? Why?
What were the 2 candidates in the Election of 1868? Who won?
What was the Fifteenth Amendment?
After voting, what was the next plan for Reconstruction in the South?
What did governments do to rebuild the South?
How many of the new South’s officeholders were African American?
What was the most infamous secret society that wanted to drive African Americans out of politics?
Congress passed what act to combat terrorism against African Americans?
What act helped Democrats regain control of most of the South?
What was the Compromise of 1877?

17. 22.6 Reconstruction Reversed
Losing Ground in Education:
The _______________ pulled ________________ from ______________ and they began to _______________
African Americans had no ____________ free ________________
Losing Voting Rights:
South made ______________ that said that you must _________ a __________ to vote and take a _________________ test
This ____________ many African Americans from _______________

18. Drawing a “Color Line”:
The _______________ also separated _____________ and _______________ in many things in life (Jim _________ Laws)
Plessy v. Ferguson:
The ____________ case was to stop the _______ Crow ____________
_______________ Court said they were _________
Many ___________ Laws were created to _________________ whites and _____________

19. 22.7 Responding to Segregation
African Americans _____________ out against the __________ laws and they were ______________ and _________________
Migration:
Moved to ______________ areas: 1. ___________ 2. The ___________ 3. ____________ (African ______________ founded by ____________ slaves)
Self- Help:
Those African Americans that _________ began to create __________________ and ________________ and learned how to ___________ and better their _______________

20. Questions
How many African American children attended school in the South?
In the South, what 2 things did African American citizens have to do in order to vote?
What were the Jim Crow laws?
In the Plessy v. Ferguson case found that segregation laws did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment, why?
What did thousands of African Americans do in response to segregation in the South?
What increased from 2,000 to 25,000 in the South between 1865 and 1903?