1. Reconstruction
The rebuilding of the Southern states in order to bring them in the Union

2. Andrew Johnson
Lincoln’s VP,
Pres. After Lincoln

3. Lincoln vs. Johnson’s Plan
Both Lincoln and Andrew Johnson wanted not to punish the South
Johnson’s was stricter: no Confederate leader could hold office

4. Thirteenth Amendment
Outlawed slavery in the United States

5. Black Codes
Laws that strictly limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people.
Examples:
Could not own guns
Could not meet after sunset
Put in prison if didn’t have a job
In SC: could only work as farmer or servant

6. Freedmen’s Bureau Set up in March 1865 to help people of the South.
Supplied food, medicine, and emergency aid to blacks and whites in the South
Set up schools for former slaves

7. Fourteenth Amendment
Defined U.S. citizenship in a way that included Af. Americans.
Pres. Johnson encouraged Southern states to oppose it

8. Fifteenth Amendment
Said states could not deny the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
In reality, most former slaves still could not vote

9. Ku Klux Klan
Many Southerners did not like the changes during Reconstruction
Some resorted to violence
Started in 1866, the KKK used intimidations to return
power to white men

10. Reconstruction ( )
Reconstruction was a time of major social, economic, and political change.