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These laws were written separate freedmen from white citizens.
What were Black Codes.
This organization was formed to help freedmen navigate the end of slavery.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This Radical Republican from Pennsylvania strongly supported greater rights for freedmen and harsher Reconstruction policies.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
He became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This Mississippi college became a school for freedmen. It was led be Hiram Revels.
What is Alcorn State University?
Hiram Revels filled Mississippi's senate seat left empty by this man.
Who was Jeff Davis?
This group was formed to keep freedmen from voting and enjoying their newly gained rights.
What was the Klu Klux Klan?
These Republicans in Congress favored stronger protections for freedmen and harsher treatment of former Confederate leaders.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This Union general won the presidential election of 1868 and became president during Reconstruction.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This farming system allowed tenants to work land they did not own and pay rent with part of their crop.
What is sharecropping?
This man was the first freedmen to serve in the House of Representatives from SC.
Who was Joseph Rainey?
In 1870, this Mississippi politician became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?
This Massachusetts senator was one of the leading Radical Republicans in Congress.
Who was Charles Sumner?
Johnson remained president because the Senate fell short of removing him by this narrow margin.
What is one vote?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the idea of “separate but equal.”
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
He flipped parties by joining the Republicans. He went to work for Grant and served in New Orleans. This is interesting because he was a former Confederate General.
Oh, and he converted to Catholicism.
Who was James Longstreet?
During the Civil War, this man escaped slavery by taking control of a Confederate transport ship and later served in Congress.
Who was Robert Smalls?
Congress supported this amendment because lawmakers wanted constitutional protection for citizenship, due process, and equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Republican became president after the disputed election of 1876, an election connected to the end of Reconstruction.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
This movie sought to insult the idea of black legislators. It was later shown in the White House.
What was Birth of a Nation?
President Andrew Johnson’s attempt to remove this Secretary of War helped lead to Johnson’s impeachment.
Who was Edwin Stanton?
This Mississippi senator became the first African American to serve a full six-year term in the U.S. Senate.
Who was Blanche K. Bruce?
Congress wanted stricter requirements than Lincoln for former Confederate states to rejoin the Union. This bill represented that tougher approach.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
This president made some bad investments and lost all of his money. He was forced to write his biography while dying of throat cancer. His book saved his family from ruin.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This event redirected the nation's focus from Reconstruction to major national economic problems.
What was the Panic of 1873?