people/groups
Government Association that was founded to help former slaves into society
Freedmen's Bureau
Abolished slavery except as a punishment for a criminal
13th amendment
rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
the place where Lincoln was shot
the state of living poor or homeless
vagrancy
John Wilkes Booth
declared that all who were born in the United States are citizens of that country
capitalists who came to the South to try to profit off of the Reconstruction
carpetbaggers
ex-general of the Union, 18th president of the US
Ulysses S. Grant
Grandfather Clause
leader of radical republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
act that sent all Southern governments out if they did not ratify the 14th amendment
when laws are enforced by military
ex. When the reconstruction was being introduced and carried out, this was in act to enforce the new amendments
Martial Law
ended Reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
a way to get poor African Americans to work for you by saying that skills are being taught to them, but really just taking advantage of them
apprenticeship
preacher turned first African American senator
Hiram Revels
an act passed saying that African Americans would get their rights protected by the government as much as a white man or woman. If these rights were not upheld by the state, they would be upheld by the militia.
KKK Bill/Enforcement Act
the idea that the South was going to lose the war from the start, and even when they lost they upheld this idea
the "Lost Cause"
Stole a boat, then gave it to Union troops. Later became a congressman
Robert Smalls
an under the table deal where Reconstruction was to be ended if the Republican candidate was put in office
the end of the Reconstruction when Democrats started to gain more power in office
Southern Redemption
a presidents right to deny an amendment without going through Congress
pocket veto
three laws that were laid upon Southern states to try to get African Americans to not vote (list three laws)
Poll Tax, Literary Test, Grandfather Clause