Are Blacks Free?
Reconstruction Laws
Drama in Congress
Andrew Johnson's Mess
Saving the South?
100

Created by Congress to help the poor, establish schools, and settle disputes between blacks and whites

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

100

Gave citizenship to Blacks

What is the Fourteenth Amendment?

100

The second phase of Reconstruction

What is Congressional Reconstruction?

100

How he unexpectedly became President.

President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

100

A terrorist organization against blacks and Republican leaders

What is the KKK?

200

When Blacks rent farmland that they pay with a percentage of their future crops

What is sharecropping?

200

Temporarily divided South into five military districts

What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

200

What the Republicans in Congress thought was violating free labor

What are the Black Codes?

200

How he took away "40 acres and a mule" from Southern black families

Revoking Special Field Order #15

200

White northerners trying to gain office in the South

Who are carpetbaggers?

300

When Blacks borrowed money with high interest for farming supplies, and pledged part of their crops as collateral.

What is the crop lien system?

300

Gave Black men the legal right to vote

What is the Fifteenth Amendment?

300

They thought nobody was ready for Black suffrage, and wished to only tweak Johnson's plans

Who are the Moderate Republicans?

300

How he turned Congress and most of the Republican North against him

What is Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction? (His mass pardoning of white Southerners)

300

"Traitorous" white Republicans born in the South

Who are scalawags?

400

The three central institutions of the Black Community's culture and politics.

What are family, churches, and education?

400

Outlaws terrorist societies with backing of army

What are the Enforcement Acts?

400

the central issue of the political campaign of 1866

the 14th Amendment

400

He vetoed this bill due to it taking power away from the states

The Civil Rights Bill of 1866

400

They're Democrats "saving" the white South from radical corruption

Who are the Redeemers?

500

Legalized their marriage and property ownership, but not their right to vote, testify, or serve in the militia

What are Black Codes?

500

Outlawed racial discrimination in places of public accommodation

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

500

Deal during 1876 election for the Republican Hayes to become President if troops are removed from the South

What is the Bargain of 1877?

500

Why he got impeached

He broke the Tenure of Office Act

500

They wanted to take land from white Southern planters and divide it amongst Blacks.

Who are the Radical Republicans?