Political changes
What amendments abolished slavery and gave rights to slaves?
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
Who wrote and announced the Gettysburg Address?
Abraham Lincoln
The system replaced slavery?
Sharecropping
A person from the north that went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction?
Carpetbagger
What ended reconstruction?
The compromise of 1877
What laws were passed in the south to limit they rights of African Americans?
Black codes
Who was loyal to the Union and the vice president of Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
What is the term for southern whites who supported the republican party?
Scalawag
What cash crops were prominent after the Civil War?
Cotton and Tobacco
Which president was elected at the end of reconstruction?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Branch of government that led Radical reconstruction
Congress
Who was elected as president after Lincoln's assassination?
Ulysses S. Grant
What change allowed African Americans to legally marry?
Emancipation
What happened to the value of southern plantations?
It declined
What rights did many African Americans lose during the end of reconstruction?
Voting rights
What political party led reconstrucion efforts in congress?
Republican Party?
Who was the first black senator in congress?
Hiram Revels
Society of white supremacists that fought and openly oppressed African Americans?
Ku Klux Klan
This system sllowed farmers to rent land in exchange for a portion of their crops?
Tenant farming
What laws were passed to divide people by race?
Jim Crow Laws
What was the return of white democratic control in the South after Reconstruction?
Redemption
who was the radical republican senator from Massachusetts?
Charles Sumner
What was established to aid African American slaves and poor southerners following the Civil War?
Freedman's Bureau Act
What was the economic goal in the South after reconstruction?
Industrialization
What did many African Americans do as a result of losing their rights?
Moved North or West