Presidential Reconstruction
Agency that provided food, housing, employment services to freedmen
Freedmen's Bureau
Abolished slavery
13th amendment
Enforcement Acts targeted this group
Year the economy collapsed that made Reconstruction less popular
1873
Supreme Court Case ruling that racial segregation does not violate the fourteenth amendment
Plessy v Ferguson
Impeached for opposing congressional reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
15th amendment
Name used to describe white Southerners who voted Republican
Scalawags
Name of Republicans who opposed Reconstruction
Liberal Republicans
Name of the tens of thousands of African Americans who fled to Kansas in 1879
Exodusters
Included laws forcing freedmen not to leave their employers
Black Codes
Enshrined birthright citizenship
14th amendment
1866 Civil rights Act
Labor system that followed slavery, allowed planters to continue to exploit workers
sharecropping
civil rights leader who believed agricultural education was more important than classical education
WEB DuBois
Lincoln's plan to readmit rebel states
ten percent plan
fourteenth amendment
Number of military districts the South was split into
five
The last year a Civil Rights Act was passed before Redeemers returned to power
1875
President who earned his seat through the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South
Rutherford B. Hayes
Number of acres promised by William Tecumseh Sherman in his field order
40
excluded from the fifteenth amendment
women
first black senator
Hiram Revels
Type of "involuntary servitude" the 13th amendment allowed and states exploited
Convict labor
Leading anti-lynching activist
Ida B Wells