Life after the war
What are Freedmen?
Former slaves that were freed by the emancipation proclamation and the 13th Amendment
What is discrimination?
Dividing people by their differences like skin color.
What's the civil rights act?
All people living in the US except tribal Native Americans were now citizens and could vote and be protected by the law.
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the south after the civil war
Who was Andrew Johnson?
17th US President after Lincoln's death
What did the freedmen's bureau do?
provided food, housing, medicine, and farmland to freed slaves and poor southern families for a year after the war
what was a sharecropper?
person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop profit
How many military districts did the Reconstruction act divide the former Confederate states into?
5
What two parties did the Republican party split into after Lincoln's death?
Radicals and Conservatives
what was the first national park called?
yellowstone
What did the Radicals want?
To punish the south for starting the civil war
what did the Compromise of 1877 do?
Brought an end to reconstruction
What did the Conservatives want?
To help the Southern states recover from the war.