Misc.
the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War was called
Reconstruction
Wanted the government to control recovery of the Southern states from the Civil War
Radicals
The practice of separating people by skin color
segregation
Was designed to provide food, housing, medicine and farmland to freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year
The Freedmen's Bureau
Wanted the states to make decisions on their own about recovery
Conservatives
the Fifteenth Amendment declared that no man could be kept from ________ because of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
voting
After the Civil War, which political party split into two groups called the Radicals and Conservatives
Republican Party
the Fourteenth Amendment declared that freedmen were _________ of the United States
citizens
A person who farmed for a landowner and received part of the the crop's profit
sharecropper
President who signed bills to set aside land for Yellowstone National Park, created the National Weather Bureau, and created the Department of Justice
Ulysses S. Grant
The first Black American to serve in the U.S. senate
two groups who took advantage of poor Southerners during Reconstruction
carpetbaggers and scalawags
The Compromise of 1877
Act which divided former Confederate states into five military districts to aid in recovery
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
Which act declared all persons born in the United States, except Native Americans, were considered citizens with full and equal benefits of all laws
Civil Rights Act of 1866