Successes of Reconstruction
Agency created to assist freedmen find work and get education.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Lincoln's assassination resulted in this Southern Democrat becoming president.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Name of the deal that ensured Hayes won the election and ended Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877, aka the Corrupt Bargain?
Ended slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Ambitious plan to grant land and a farm animal to freedmen to help them become independent and self-sufficient.
What was 40 Acres and a Mule?
Won the presidency in 1877 promising to remove U.S. troops from the South.
Who was Rutherford Hayes?
Granted the right to vote, regardless of race or prior condition of servitude.
What was the 15th Amendment?
Type of farming where a farmer pays rent for the use of land in the form of a percentage of a crop.
What was sharecropping?
These were taxes charged to people, mostly freedmen, who attempted to vote in the South.
What were poll taxes?
Granted permanently equal treatment under the law to all, regardless of race.
What was the 14th amendment?
President Johnson pardoned these individuals and returned their land to them.
Who were Southern or Confederate leaders?
Organization that used violence to intimidate freedmen who attempted to assert their rights in southern states.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
This act of Congress was a success because it passed over Johnson's veto and was the first law to grant equal treatment to ex-slaves.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
The passing of the Civil Rights Act was an attempt to address these laws that restricted the freedom and civil rights of the freedmen.
What were Black Codes?
These laws created segregation in southern states.
What were Jim Crow?