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Us History: Reconstruction

Lincoln assassination • Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16 th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 • assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865 • attending a play at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. • Booth was a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland • Booth formulated a plan to kidnap Lincoln in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners. After attending an April 11, 1865, speech in which Lincoln promoted voting rights for blacks, an incensed Booth changed his plans and became determined to assassinate the president

Pictures regarding the assassination of our 16 th president.

Reconstruction • Reconstruction was the process of rebuilding the south and reunifying Presidential reconstructions • Lincolns : 10% of southern voters required to take an oath of loyalty before the state would be readmitted to the union. The goal was to bring south back south into the union. Military reconstruction • The reconstruction act: divided the south in military districts U. S soldiers would be stationed in each to make sure things stayed under control.

Freedmen's Bureau • Freedmens bureau provied food, clothing, healthcare, and education for new free slaves • initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War.

Poll taxes • After the civil war, southern states had a range of tactics to prevent African Americans from being able to vote • A poll tax is a tax assessed on an individual, usually as a condition of voting in an election • Poll taxes were required to be at every poll during elections • These would limit the suffrage of many African Americans

Literacy test -In addition to the different kinds of tactics, there are literacy tests. -These were assessments that made to check the knowledge of a person who was going to vote. -These were made hard for people, but targete the African Americans voters during this era - If one did not pass these tests, they were unable to vote

Example of a literacy test for the state of Louisianna.

Grandfather clauses • The thought of black men voting was not wanted, if they did or did not pass the literacy tests did not matter dude to the Grandfather clauses • If a man’s grandfather was able to vote, he was able to vote as well, so automatically, black men were not able to vote, and a white man could vote just because his grandfather could. It did not matter if he could pass the test or not.

Ku Klux Klan • The first Klan came together in the Southern United States in the late 1860 s, then died out by the early 1870 s. • It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by using violence against African American leaders • Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks, and conical hats, designed to be terrifying, and to hide their identities

Nathan Bedford Forrest became famous for being one of the founders of the kkk.

Reconstruction Amendments • The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude ( end slavery ) • The fourteenth amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to treatment of freedmen following the war. ( give citizenship to all freedmen ) • The Fifteenth amendment gave suffrage to all freedmen ( African Americans the right to vote )

Plessy vs Ferguson • Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal“

Jim crow -Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states - Between 1877 and the mid-1960 s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. -The Jim Crow system had these following beliefs: whites were superior to blacks in all important ways, including to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior; sexual relations between blacks and whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America.

Segregation -The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. -By the time the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was that African Americans were not U. S. citizens, northern whites had excluded blacks from seats on public transportation and barred their entry, except as servants, from most hotels and restaurants.

Disenfranchisement • Prevent a person or group from voting or holding political power. • Based on series of laws, new constitutions, and practices.