Are Blacks Free?
Created by Congress to help the poor, establish schools, and settle disputes between blacks and whites
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Gave citizenship to Blacks
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The second phase of Reconstruction
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
How he unexpectedly became President.
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
A terrorist organization against blacks and Republican leaders
What is the KKK?
When Blacks rent farmland that they pay with a percentage of their future crops
What is sharecropping?
Temporarily divided South into five military districts
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
What the Republicans in Congress thought was violating free labor
What are the Black Codes?
How he took away "40 acres and a mule" from Southern black families
Revoking Special Field Order #15
White northerners trying to gain office in the South
Who are carpetbaggers?
When Blacks borrowed money with high interest for farming supplies, and pledged part of their crops as collateral.
What is the crop lien system?
Gave Black men the legal right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
They thought nobody was ready for Black suffrage, and wished to only tweak Johnson's plans
Who are the Moderate Republicans?
How he turned Congress and most of the Republican North against him
What is Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction? (His mass pardoning of white Southerners)
"Traitorous" white Republicans born in the South
Who are scalawags?
The three central institutions of the Black Community's culture and politics.
What are family, churches, and education?
Outlaws terrorist societies with backing of army
What are the Enforcement Acts?
the central issue of the political campaign of 1866
the 14th Amendment
He vetoed this bill due to it taking power away from the states
The Civil Rights Bill of 1866
They're Democrats "saving" the white South from radical corruption
Who are the Redeemers?
Legalized their marriage and property ownership, but not their right to vote, testify, or serve in the militia
What are Black Codes?
Outlawed racial discrimination in places of public accommodation
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
Deal during 1876 election for the Republican Hayes to become President if troops are removed from the South
What is the Bargain of 1877?
Why he got impeached
He broke the Tenure of Office Act
They wanted to take land from white Southern planters and divide it amongst Blacks.
Who are the Radical Republicans?