Crash Course on Reconstruction
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Steps Toward Equality
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Amendment
 The 13th Amendment helped African
Americans toward equality because it
outlawed slavery.
Johnson’s Reconstruction
 Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan allowed
Confederate States to rejoin the Union once
they had written a new Constitution, canceled
it’s war debts, ratified the 13th Amendment,
and repealed it’s act of secession.
 His plan hindered African Americans from
gaining equal rights because he vetoed a lot
of the equal rights legislation written by
Congress.
Freedmen’s Bureau
 Although it was not funded very long, the
Freedmen’s Bureau helped because it was a
government agency created by Congress to help
assist former slaves by providing necessities, medical
care, and education to freedmen.
Black Codes
 The Black Codes hindered by
limiting the rights of African
Americans. They were created
by wealthy Southern planters
to control their former slaves
by giving them only a portion
of the rights a citizen had. A
typical law forced blacks to
work or face being arrested,
essentially forcing them to
labor on farms or house
servants.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
 The Civil Rights Act of
1866 helped by
outlawing Black Codes.
Although Johnson
vetoed this bill, Congress
overrode the veto.
14th Amendment
 It helped because it defined
citizenship as anyone born
in the United States and
granted equal rights to all
citizens.
Military Reconstruction Act
 This Radical Republican plan helped by dividing the
south into military districts to oversee and the
enforcement of Reconstruction legislation.
Johnsons Impeachment
 It helped because Radical Republicans were tired of
Johnson’s vetoes. Although Johnson remained in
office by one vote, he lost credibility and power.
Sharecropping
 A farming system that hindered by
keeping blacks poor and uneducated.
15th Amendment
 It helped by giving African- Americans
the right to vote.
New State Constitutions
 It helped by
replacing all
confederate
governments in the
south.
African- Americans Office Holders
 It helped
because
blacks
began to
gain
political
power.
Ku Klux Klan
 It hindered by terrorizing blacks and
keeping them from voting.
Enforcement Act
 They helped by outlawing
people (Ku Klux Klan)
from interfering with the
right to vote and other
violations of the equal
protection of the law.
Amnesty Act of 1872
 It hindered by pardoning Confederate
officials and allowing them to vote and
gain political office.
Compromise of 1877
 It hindered by ending Reconstruction.
It allowed Hayes to become president
(Republican), withdrew the military
from the south, and returned
Southern Democrats to power.
Poll Tax
They hindered by
making voters pay a tax
to vote. This kept blacks
and poor whites from
voting.
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Literacy Tests
 They hindered by
making the freedmen
take tests before they
could vote. They
discriminated against
illiterate blacks and
poor whites.
Jim Crow Laws
 They hindered by
legally segregating
whites and blacks.
Plessy v. Ferguson
 The Supreme Court case that hindered by
legalizing segregation and instituting the
“Separate But Equal” doctrine.