South
were communities in the U.S. that excluded Black people and other minorities after dark through laws, threats, or violence.
Sundown Towns
Issue that led to the Civil War
Slavery
Gov’t agency set up to provide food, shelter, clothing, education, and jobs for newly freed slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
Aimed to strip voting rights from former Confederate supporters
Radical Republican/Congress
It is illegal to hold someone as a slave or force them to work against their will in the United States, except as part of a punishment if someone is convicted of a crime.
13th Amendment
Mostly former Confederate soldiers
Used terror as tactic
Ku Klux Klan
Many initially supported Reconstruction and the protection of African American rights, though enthusiasm faded over time.
Northerns
Put the South under military rule, dividing it into five districts, each governed by a northern general.
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866-help protect freedmen from laws discriminating against former enslaved people that were being passed in many Southern states.
Radical Republican/ Congress
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
14th Amendment
Which state was able to elect a Black majority to the House of Representatives
South Carolina
Won the Civil War
North
President after Assassination of Lincoln
ANDREW JOHNSON
Creation of a Freedmen's Bureau-help newly freed slaves.
Radical Republican Plan
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States
15th Amendment
White Southerners sought ways to control newly freed African Americans
laws to regulate civil and legal rights, from marriage to the right to hold and sell property
Black Codes
Negotiate labor contracts
Education was a large focus!
Freedmen's Bureau
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Pardons would be granted to Southerners taking a loyalty oath
Johnson's Plan
How tall is Ms. Kaur
5'4
freed blacks would rent small plots of land and farm it. In return, they would give a portion of their crop to the landowner at the end of the year.
Sharecropping
Who were Carpetbaggers
any Northerners who were present in the South during the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877).
Declared "all persons held as slaves" in rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"
Emancipation Proclamation
Required 10% voters, former Confederates to take an oath of allegiance to the Union
Lincoln's Plan
The period after the Civil war to reunite the country
Reconstruction