Amendments
Abolished slavery in the United States
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Became president after Lincoln's assassination
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Federal agency helping freedment with education, food, and labor
What is Freedmen's Bureau
Southern white Republicans supporting Reconstruction
What are Scalawags?
System that trapped freedmen in debt
What is Sharecropping?
Grants birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Impeached but survived removal by one vote
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This system allowed Southern states to restrict freedmen's rights and movement despite the end of slavery
What are Black Codes?
Northern Republicans moving South after war
What are Carpetbaggers?
Johnson returned this to former Confederates, blocking Black independence
What are Land / plantations?
Declares race cannot be used to deny Black men the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
Pushed for federal land redistribution and equality?
Divided South into 5 military districts
What is the Reconstruction Act?
Congress members wanting federal power to enforce Black rights
What are Radical Republicans?
This promised but largely denied economic opportunity left feredment working others' land in poverty after the Civil War
What is the failure of land reform?
Passed over Johnson's veot to protect freedment's rights
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Won 1868 election and enforced Reconstruction
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Laws passed to stop KKK violence & protect Black voters
What are Enforcement Acts?
White supremacist group using violence against Black voters
What was the KKK?
Despite the 13th - 15th Amendments, freedmen's rights were often blocked by violence from groups like the KKK, economic hardship, and racist state laws
What is the failure of Reconstruction to protect freedmen?
Limited voting rights but didn't include women
What is the Fifteenth Amendment controversy / women's exclusion?
Who is Horace Greely?
Limited president from removing officials without Senate approval
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
What are Redeemers?
1867-1877 period where 2,000+ African Americans held office
What is Radical Reconstruction?