Aims
Allow states to re-enter the Union with only 10% swearing allegiance to the United States
Who is Abraham Lincoln
granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S (defined citizenship)
What is the 14th Ammendment?
Wanted to regain social position
Who is the Southern Elite?
no effect politcally
Who are Northerners?
They entered into sharecropping agreements with landowners
Who are African Americans?
He did not support the Freedman’s Bureau
Who is President Johnson?
banned slavery in the U.S and any of its territories
What is the 13th Amendment?
Able to go to school and church. Able to leave plantations to reunite with families
Who are African Americans?
Tried to get involved with government.
Who were poor whites?
Wanted to start making money with cotton again. Started sharecropping.
Who are the Southern Elite?
States had to pass the 13thl 14th, & 15th Amendments to rejoin the Union.
Who is Congress?
gave all male citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
Focus on taking care of their families
Who are poor whites?
They could vote and elect other African Americans along with whites who supported them.
Who were African Americans?
Entered into sharecropping agreements with landowners
Who are poor whites?
The south has suffered enough and wanted to take it easy on them.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Gave equal rights to African Americans
When Reconstruction ended in 1877 most of the rights were lost until the 1960s and Reverend Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
no effect socially.
Who are notherners?
Passed taxes to make it hard for anyone who was not rich to own land.
Who were Southern Elite?
"Carpetbaggers" came to the south to take advantage of Southerners. They "sold" items to southerners to make money.
Who are Northerners?
States had to swear an Oath of Allegiance to the U.S
Who is President Johnson?
were law as that promoted segregation in the South between the and of Reconstruction period and the beginning of the Civil Rights movement.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Groups: Southern governments having more black codes, Jim Crow Laws, and other policies that discriminated against African Americans.
Who is the KKK?
a clause where you can only vote if your grandfather voted before.
What is the grandfather clause?
everyone had to pay to vote; blacks had no money to pay
What is a poll tax?