After Civil War
The President during the beginning of the reconstruction era.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Changes to the constitution that protect citizen's rights.
What are amendments?
Helped thousands of former slaves and poor whites in the south.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
System set up for poor freed people
What is Sharecropping?
Laws that made segregation legal
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Assissinated 5 days after the Civil War ended.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Declared slaverey would not be allowed to exist in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
Food, clothes, medical care, promoted education, and work.
What did the Freedmen's Bureau provide?
Tools and seeds for the season
What was loaned to the sharecroppers?
Buildings that were segregated
What are schools and hospitals?
Left in ruins and needed help from the North to rebuild.
What is the South?
Signed the 13th Amendment into legislation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What freedmen were given
What is abandoned land?
Independence and large amounts of debt
What did African Americans gain?
to treat people unfairly because of the color of their skin
What is discrimination?
Life was idfficult for these individuals after the Civil War.
Who are poor southerners and freed slaves?
Gave all men the right to vote, no matter their skin color or if they had been enslaved.
What is the 15th amendment?
Helped this group receive their back pay and pensions from fighting in the war.
Who are former black soldiers?
Must be paid before the sharecropper could leave their landowner
What is their debt?
Area where Jim Crow Laws became legal
What is the South?
The period of time after the Civil War
What is the Reconstruction Era?
Declared that the states could not limit the rights of cotizens. States could not take away life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or deny equal protection of the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
Groups creating the Freedmen's Bureau
Who are the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands?
Similar to slavery because it was restricted for African Americans
What are rights?
Denying a person the right to vote
What is disenfranchisement?