Vocab
Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
What are the Black Codes?
A slave owner would usually recieve a rental payment of the crops that the African Americans raised.
What is Sharecropping?
This is when the Freedmen's Bureau was established.
What is 1865?
Ulysses Grant won half a million votes from African Americans.
What is the Presidential election of 1868?
These laws were passed in 1870 and 1871 to prevent blacks from not voting from bribery, force, or scare tactics.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
The time after the civil war where the cities destroyed are rebuilt and brought back into the union.
What is reconstruction?
The name of this section.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
This is what you call an African American who is free.
What is a freedmen?
"The right to vote shall not be denied... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This was between 1860-1870.
What is the End of Reconstruction?
This abolished slavery in 1865 when this was added.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Johnson lost his power, even though he isn't removed from office.
What is Impeachment?
All twenty electoral votes went to Rutherford Hayes, giving him 185 votes to win this election.
What is the Disputed Election of 1876?
This agency was established by congress at the end of Civil War.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
This was added to the Constitution to grant all people born in the U.S..
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
You have this the moment you're born.
What are Civil Rights?
This act was passed to make the governments set up by Johnson's Reconstruction plan illegal.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
President Andrew Johnson's method of reconstruction
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
This was the highest group of African American voters.
Who are the Souths New Voters?
After weeks of negotiation, Democratic and Republican leaders in congress agreed to a compromise.
What is the compromise of 1877?