Geography
ME, MA, NY, NJ, DE, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL
Reconstruction Act of 1867
divided former confederate states into 5 military districts to aid in recover
practice of separating people by skin color
Segregation
President who signed a bill to create Yellowstone National Park, the Dept of Justice and the National Weather Bureau
Ulysses S Grant
Body of water closest to Tampa
Gulf of Mexico/America
The two sub-catagories Republicans split into after the civil war
radical and conservatives
This was designed to provide food, housing, medical needs and farmland to freed slaves for 1 year after the war (late extended to two years)
Freedmen's Bureau
Nickname of Two types of people who took advantage of the poor southerners during reconstruction
carpetbaggers and scalawags
Educator and Founder of tuskegee institute (school for men and women of color)
Booker T Washington
Body of water below Mexico (under the Gulf)
The subgroup that wanted the federal government to control all the recovery
Radicals
Civil Rights Act of 1866
all people born in the US (except native americans) were considered US citizens with full and equal benefits of all laws
someone who farmed for a landowner in exchange for part of the crops profit
sharecropper
First Former Enslaved man of color to serve in congress
Joseph Rainey
Great Lake closest to NY/PA
Lake Erie
The subgroup that wanted the states to be in control of their own recovery
conservatives
15th Amendment
no man can be kept from voting due to race, color or previous condition of servitude
First Black American to serve in the US Senate
Hiram Rhodes Revels
19th President of the US (after Ulysses S Grant)
Rutherford B Hayes
Largest Great Lake
Lake Superior
Term to describe the rebuilding of the south after the civil war
reconstruction
14th Amendment
declared freedmen were citizens of the US
Name one thing the Compromise of 1877 accomplished
-names Rutherford B Hayes as President
-Federal Troops leave southern states
-Hayes appoints 1 southerner as part of his cabinet
-federal money is given to the south to help recovery efforts
became president after Lincoln was assinated
Andrew Johnson