This term refers to the time period right after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877
What is Reconstruction?
This Amendment ended slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
Many freed African Americans did this type of work after the Civil War (farming someone else's land)
What is sharecropping?
The President after Lincoln was assasinated
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Troops returned here at the end of Reconstruction
What is the North?
This was the name for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War
Who are Carpetbaggers?
This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
After the Civil War, the North's economy was strong because of these two things
What are factories and railroads?
This party controlled much of the North during Reconstruction?
Who are Republicans?
The Civil War ended when Lee surrendered to Grant here
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
He was the first African American senator during Reconstruction
Whos is Hiram Revels
This law divided the South into five military districts during Reconstruction
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
This was one way the Freedmen's Bureau helped African Americans during Reconstruction
What is building schools or providing education?
This party controlled much of the South after Reconstruction
Who are Democrats?
This was the major goal of Reconstruction for the United States
What is bring Southern states back to the Union?
This government agency helped build schools for African Americans during Reconstruction
Who is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These were laws that limited rights for African Americans and enforced segregation after Reconstruction
What are Jim Crow laws?
The Freedmen's Bureau provided these things. (Not Education)
What is food or clothing or legal help?
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This was a challenge African American's faced during Reconstruction.
What is violence or resistance from white Southerners or unequal treatment?
This describes what happened to many Southern cities, farms, and railroads during the Civil War
What is heavily damaged and destroyed?
These three Amendments are still important parts of the Constitution as a long-term effect of Reconstruction
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
This group tried to scare African Americans from using their rights.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
More than 600 African Americans did this during Reconstruction (an important civic participation)
What are state legislators?
These three are still part of the constitution today.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment?