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Amendment that declared that no man could be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
15th amendment
split into two groups called the Radicals and Conservatives.
Republican Party
signed bills to set aside land for Yellowstone National Park, created the National Weather Bureau and created the Department of Justice
President Rutherford B. Hayes
Amendment that declared that freedmen were citizens of the United States
14th Amendment
Wanted the states to make decisions on their own about recovery
Conservatives
took advantage of Southerners during Reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags
Brought an end to Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877
Wanted the government to control recovery of the Southern states from the Civil War
Radicals
a person who farmed for a landowner and received part of the crop’s profit
sharecropper
designed to provide food, housing, medicine, and farmland to freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year.
Freedman’s Bureau
The practice of separating people by skin color
segregation
The first black American to serve in the U.S. senate
Hiram rhodes revels
all persons born in the United States, except Native Americans, were considered citizens with full and equal benefits of all laws.
Discrimination Act of 1866
divided former Confederate states into five military districts to aid in recovery.
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Reconstruction