Reconstruction Facts
Reconstruction Started in this year
1865
Gave all citizens the right to vote
15th
Workers received 0 pay no matter what
Slavery
Rebuild/Reunify
Derisive names given to people who helped with Reconstruction (Name Both)
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Gave former slaves citizenship
14th
Was Lincoln's VP in the Election of 1864
Andrew Johnson
Workers were held to the Land by debt
Sharecropping
Reconstruction focused on this region
The South
This man was president during the first part of reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
Outlawed Slavery
13th
Troops were removed from the South in the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
Workers needed permission to travel or work in cities
Slavery
Name an African American elected to Congress during Reconstruction
Robert Smalls, Hiram Revels
This political party opposed the president and had more extreme plans for reconstruction
The Radical Republican Party
Assured all citizens would receive "Due Process" including African Americans
14th
Buchanan
Workers lived in extremely tight living quarters
Both
Group that wore white hoods and terrorized African Americans during and after Reconstruction
KKK
This former civil war General became president after Johnson
Grant
Gave all citizens the right to possess a weapon for self defense
2nd
He was the last Emperor of Brazil before the country switched to elected presidents
Pedro II "The Magnanimus"
Workers were taken advantage of by landowners
Both
Phrase that refers to Land given to freed African Americans during the Civil War
40 Acres and a Mule