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What was the term Carpetbagger ?
Northerners who move south to make $$$
What did the Freedman's bureau help do ?
Helped former slaves with school, getting jobs & housing
Who was the first African American Senator?
Hiram Revels
What was the goal of the KKK?
terrorize Black people across the South
Ulysses S. Grant advocated for what?
rights of freed slaves
Scalawags
Southerner who supports the Union
Who took office after Abe Lincoln's assassination ?
Andrew Johnson
officially made slavery illegal across the US
Who made up the KKK ?
Former Confederate soldiers
Union troops controlled what in the South?
Control election boards
The Reconstruction Amendments
13th,14th and 15th Amendment
Abe Lincoln's plan for the South was known as what
The 10% Plan - 10% of a state’s voters must pledge loyalty to the US and support emancipation
What did the 14th Amendment do ?
guarantees citizenship to all persons born in the US
Robert E. Lee
The Jim Crow Era
KKK takes power in Southern states
Segregation of races
States find ways to deny rights to Black
people
What is sharecropping?
giving a part of each crop as rent.
Reconstruction also provided new opportunities for
Freed slaves
What did the 15th amendment do?
guaranteed all free men the right to vote
Who was the main general of the Union Army?
Ulysses S. Grant
The Compromise of 1877 did what?
Democrats agree not to dispute results
All troops pulled out of the South
The Age of Reconstruction
is over
Compromise of 1877
was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.
The 10 year period after the Civil War is known as the
Reconstruction Era
The KKK stands for what?
The Ku Klux Klan
What were Black Codes?
Laws passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans
What two people ran in the Election of 1876 that ultimately ended the Reconstruction Era?
Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
Samuel Tilden (Democrat)