The right to arrest an African American for not having a job.
This President prioritized unity when proposing Reconstruction legislation.
President Lincoln
This group prioritized compromise, in order to gain more seats in Congress.
Redeemers
African Americans ran for this political party.
Republican
Scalawag
Mostly young, literate men looking for opportunity
Carpetbaggers
Provide farmers with housing, seeds, and tools.
Farmer Ben had to pay rent to his landowner.
Tenant Farming
Pay $1 to $2 to vote.
Poll Tax (limit 15th amendment)
Proof that one could read or understand to vote
Literacy Test (limit 15th amendment)
Laws that kept white and blacks separate.
Jim Crow Laws
Court case that stated "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Federal gov. had no control over how state chose to define citizen
Slaughterhouse cases (limit 14th amendment)
Federal gov could protect from state gov but not action of citizens
Cruikshank Case (restrict 14th amendment)
Provided food, clothing, healthcare and education to both white and African American refugee
Freemen's Bureau
Favored punishment and hard terms to Confederate States
Radical Republicans
To protect African Americans from violence
Military Reconstruction Act (Military districts or presence)
Enforcement Acts (act against the KKK)
Granted citizenship to African Americans and outlaw Black Codes
Constitutional amendment that granted citizenship to African Americans
14th amendment
15th amendment
Made slavery unconstitutional
13th amendment
citizens the right to ride trains and use public facilities but left to the courts to decide how it applied
Civil Rights Act of 1875