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Which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.
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The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. During Reconstruction, the South was divided into military districts for the supervision of elections to set up new state governments.
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Was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans
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were military orders issued during the American Civil War
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To help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Were laws passed by Southern states after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
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Was one of a number of secret, oath-bound organizations using violence, which included the Southern Cross in New Orleans
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Any Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedman and the carpetbagger
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The 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth
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The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition
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Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union.
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President Andrew Johnson, adopting eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors", in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution.
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Were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. The 13th Amendment banned slavery and all involuntary servitude, except in the case of punishment for a crime.
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Concept introduced by Carl Schurz. The laws and amendments of Reconstruction reflected the intersection of two products of the Civil War era—a newly empowered national state, and the idea of a national citizenry enjoying equality before the law.
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Is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
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Were three bills passed by the United States Congress between. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.
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Legal dispute that resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1873 limiting the protection of the privileges and communities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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Was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era in response to civil rights violations to African Americans, "to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights", giving them equal treatment
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Were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States. They called themselves "Radicals" with a sense of a complete permanent eradication of slavery and secession, without compromise.
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Was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
