Answer:
1. Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" (Presidential Reconstruction) dealt with re-admitting Southern states into the Union (ratify the 13th amendment, reject secession, 10% of voters from 1860 pledge allegiance to the US).
2. What the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution accomplished was that It abolished slavery.
3. Congress wanted to impeach President Andrew Johnson because he violated the Tenure of Office Act (broke federal law by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton without Senate approval).
4. The main elements of the Compromise of 1877 were to gain Democratic support, Hayes agreed to support internal improvements for the South, appoint a Southerner to the Cabinet, and withdraw federal troops from the South.
5. The statement that BEST explains why Reconstruction ended is "Ending Reconstruction was a way for the government to cut expenses in a nation facing economic downturn because the North saw themselves as financing the military occupation of the South and relief programs like the Freedmen’s Bureau"
6. After the end of the American Civil War, many southern states passed "Black Codes" which were primarily intended to place political, economic, and social limits on Black people in the South—control relations between White Southerners and newly freed slaves.
7. Congressional Reconstruction refers to the period when A Radical Republican majority Congress overturned any of President Johnson’s vetoes to enact harsher regulations on the South.
8. The Freedmen’s Bureau offered help with basic needs (food, shelter, clothing) to former slaves, poor whites, and even American Indians, but one of its biggest areas of success was basic education.
9. The agency responsible for easing freed slaves' transition from enslavement to freedom was the Freedmen's Bureau (Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands).
10. The group that was created in 1866 to resist all Reconstruction efforts in the South through violence against Blacks and Whites that supported Reconstruction. was the Ku Klux Klan
Explanation:
1.- The 10 percent plan specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.
2. The 13th Amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
3. the United States House of Representatives resolved to impeach the President, adopting eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors",
4.- As a result of the Compromise of 1877, Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again, effectively marking the end of the Reconstruction era.
5.- Being part of the result of the compromise of 1877 the end of the reconstruction is one of the biggest moments in American history.
6. Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
7. Reconstruction addressed how the eleven seceding rebel states in the south would regain what the Constitution and be reseated in Congress, the civil status of the former leaders of the Confederacy, and the Constitutional and legal status of freedmen, especially their civil rights and whether they should be given the right to vote.
8. The educational goals of the Freedmen’s Bureau were only partially met. By 1870, the Bureau managed to educate 200,000 students with a teaching staff of 9,000 in only 4,000 schools. By the time the Freedmen’s Bureau ended in 1876, more than half of white children and about 40 percent of colored students were attending school.
9. The Freedmen’s Bureau was intended to act as a primitive welfare agency, aiming to ease the transition from slavery to freedom.
10. Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks