FAC Bell 4 Reconstruction

A proposed law that would (1) require a majority of southerners in any given state to take the loyalty oath and (2) "anyone who had voluntarily born arms against the United States" were barred from voting.

• Ten Percent Plan

• Wade Davis Bill

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Tenure of Office Act

A law that declared specifically that Blacks were citizens and could not have their rights to property restricted. It essentially put teeth in the 13th Amendment, which had been ratified in 1865 and effectively reversed the SCOTUS decision in the Dredd Scott case.

• Ten Percent Plan

• Wade Davis Bill

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Tenure of Office Act

• A plan that stated that all Southerners could reinstate themselves as United States citizens by taking a simple loyalty oath. 

• When, in any state, a small percentage of those who voted in the 1860 election had taken this oath, they could set up state government. The governments must:

  • be republican in form

  • recognize the “permanent freedom” of slaves 

  • provide an education for freed blacks

• Ten Percent Plan

• Wade Davis Bill

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Tenure of Office Act

ended slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

granted citizenship to all people born in America and granted the right to equal citizenship under the law

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

gave black men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

the president refuses to make a bill a law, not by rejecting it and returning it to Congress with his objections, but by refusing to act on it at all until the period to sign or reject expires.

• pocket veto

• impeachment

• veto

• judicial review

a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office - this action was taken for the first time against Andrew Johnson for violation of the Tenure of Office Act

• pocket veto

• impeachment

• veto

• judicial review

the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dredd Scott v. Sandford

• Brown v Board of Ed

• Marbury v. Madison

This women's organization admitted only women. It favored a federal solution to women’s suffrage, namely an amendment to the Constitution.  This group opposed ratification of the 15th Amendment, which they believed should include women.

• National Woman Suffrage Organization (NWSA)

• The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)

• Temperance Movement

• National Organization for Women (NOW)