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 that ruled 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
Removing a group's right to vote
Disenfranchisement
Famous Civil Rights Leader who believed in developing vocational skills and self-sufficiency before demanding racial equality
Booker T Washington
Included laws forcing freedmen not to leave their employers
Black Codes
Enshrined birthright citizenship
14th amendment
Year the first ever Civil Rights Law was passed
1866
Labor system that tied farmers to landowners through debt
sharecropping
Famous Civil rights leader who believed in protest for immediate racial equality
WEB DuBois
Lincoln's plan to readmit rebel states
ten percent plan
fourteenth amendment
Number of military districts the South was split into
five
What Southerners called Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
President who earned his seat after the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
Number of acres promised by William Tecumseh Sherman in his field order
40
excluded from the fourteenth amendment's birthright citizenship
Native Americans
first black senator
Hiram Revels
The only type of "involuntary servitude" (or forced labor) the reconstruction amendments allowed
Convict labor/prison labor
Four states with contested results in the 1876 Election
Oregon, South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana