STAAR 8th Grade Social Studies Unit 9 Reconstruction

 Led the second phase of Reconstruction in the South

• Radical Republicans
• Democrats
• Whigs
• Democratic-Republicans

Many former Confederate States refused to ratify this amendment required by the the Reconstruction Acts of 1867

• 1st Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 10th Amendment
• 5th Amendment

This was implemented in the South to intentionally restrict the rights and freedoms of the freedmen, forcing them back onto plantations for work.

• Enforcement Acts
• Reconstruction Acts 1867
• Black Codes
• Constitutional Convention

Divided the South into 5 districts governed by military commanders, ex-confederates were not allowed to vote, states must pass a new constitution ratifying 13th and 14 Amendments.

• 13th Amendment
• Civil Rights Act
• Enforcement Acts
• Reconstruction Acts of 1867

Granted citizenship to all native-born Americans except women and Native-Americans.

• 13th Amendment
• Dawes Act
• 14th Amendment
• Morrill Act

President Johnson violated the laws Congress had passed to prevent him from replacing military officials in the Southern Districts. This conflict led Congress to his

• Re-election
• Arrest
• Impeachment
• Death

This made it illegal to deny suffrage to any man because of their race.

• 15th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 10th Amendment

This group terrorized blacks in the south, preventing them from participating in the freedoms granted to them in the Constitution and by the Civil Rights Acts of 1866.

• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws
• Ku Klux Klan
• Enforcement Acts

Intended to enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments, made it illegal to interfere with anyone's right to vote, fight terrorism, while Grant sent military to south to enforce these acts.

• 13th Amendment
• Civil Rights Act
• Reconstruction Acts of 1867
• Enforcement Acts

Branch of government that blocked the Enforcement Acts

• Legislative Branch (Congress)
• Judicial Branch (Supreme Court)
• Executive Branch (President)