Key People
The first African American U.S. senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
Northerners who moved South to help freedmen and/or steal land.
What are Carpetbaggers?
Abolished slavery in the United States of America.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
One thing the Freedmen’s Bureau provided.
What is schools, educators, medical care, protection, legal support?
Goals to reunite the country and rebuild the south. Started in 1865 and ended in 1877.
What is the Reconstruction?
Became president after Lincoln was assassinated
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Refers to landowners loaning farming land for a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment ?
Group of terrorist in the south, harming African Americans in the south.
What is the KKK?
The event that shifted reconstruction priorities to economic issues.
What is the panic of 1873?
Which president was wanted only high ranking confederate leaders to be punished?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The laws that restricted Black freedom in the South during Reconstruction.
What are the Black Codes?
Prohibited denial of voting rights based on race
What is the 15th Amendment ?
began holding local, state, and federal government positions.
What are freedmen?
Made Hayes President, removed Federal troops from the south and marked the end of reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Republican who was labeled as a corrupt and scandalous leader.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Post-reconstruction, the Southern states governed without Northern interference.
What is Home Rule?
Gave citizenship and civil rights to freedmen in 1866.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
What is community centers for African Americans in the South?
Stated, Federal government couldn't punish individuals for racial violence.
What is U.S. v. Cruikshank (1877)?
Won the 1876 election due to a political compromise.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
Southern Democrats “reclaiming” their governments.
What is Redeemers/Redemption?
The act that divided the South into 5 military districts in 1867.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
African Americans renting land and selling majority of the crops grown.
What is Tenant Farming?
First time in U.S. history a president won without the popular vote.
What is the election of 1866?