Bills/Laws/Acts
Caused the Indirect oppression of African Americans
Black Codes
Southerner who supported Northern political viewpoints
Scalawags
This group moved South during the Grant Administration to help the Republican Party gain control of the South
Northern Republicans
Paying rent for the land that is worked on
Tenant Farming
Who wanted the Pardon the South and allow them back into the Union with little to no repercussions.
Emancipated African Americans after the Civil War
13th Amendment
Tax on Alcohol and Tobacco
Sin-Taxes
Define the New South
Paying rent with crops not cash
Sharecropping
Who Ended Reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ensured African Americans had a Fair Trail and could Own land
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Indirectly vetoing a bill
Pocket Veto
What industries did the New South run
Iron and Steel/ Cotton Factories
Placing high interest on supplies Purchased by African Americans would purchase.
Crop Liens
Who used the Wade- Davis Bill as their reconstruction plan and attempted to put end to the 14th Amendment.
Andrew Johnson
Ensured African Americans had....
Life Liberty and Property and Due Process
14th Amendment
Not being able to pay off debt because of sharecropping
Debt Peonage
a bill proposed by the Moderate Republicans that wanted the south to, Take an Oath, Abolish Slavery, and Hold a Constitutional Convention
Wade- Davis Bill
Describe the Panic of 1873
Economic crisis where the largest bank in America closed.
Who followed a Radical Reconstruction Plan but failed to maintain their progress.
Ulysses S. Grant
States that "Citizens have the right to vote despite race or previous servitude.
15th Amendment
Government Organization that aided African Americans
Freedman's Bureau
Name the 3 ways the Freedmen's Bureau aided African Americans
Housing/Jobs/Food...Education....Right to a Fair Trial
Describe the Economic Scandal that occurred under the Grant Administration.
Whiskey Ring Scandal: tax fraud
DAILY DOUBLE
What was the center of African American Communities.
Protected them from persecution
Churches