Reconstruction Era Goals and Amendments
Abraham Lincoln's approach to the South after the Civil War
What is to treat them with kindness and justice?
This was the GENERAL purpose of The Freedmen's Bureau
What is to assist the newly freed slaves?
After the Civil War voting in the south was limited to these THREE groups
What is the freedmen, white southerners who opposed the war, and Northerners who moved to the south after the war?
As a deal between Rutherford B. Hayes and Souther Democrats, he became president in return of him pulling out troops from the south, this was called
What is The Compromise of 1877?
This clause exempted whites from paying poll taxes or taking literacy tests based on their ancestors' voting history
What is the grandfather clause?
The Military Reconstruction Act was passed by Congress in response to this president's wish to NOT treat the south too harshly
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The Black Codes limited newly freed slaves to these types of job
What are farming jobs, or jobs requiring limited skills?
The newest African American voters from the south joined this political party
What is the Republican Party?
This group was created in order to give Democrats their power back in the south, often using violence to do so
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Southern Democrats reversed the educational gains made by African Americans in these TWO ways
What is cutting spending and charging fees which made many school close?
The 13th Amendment did this
What is abolish slavery?
These codes served the following THREE purposes: limit the rights of freed people, help landowners find new workers, and keep people at the bottom of the social order in the South.
What are The Black Codes?
A system where a tenant farmer would work a landowner's land in exchange for a share of the crops produced and living accommodations
What is sharecropping?
The passing of these acts made it illegal to prevent someone from voting by bribery, force, or scare tactics
What are The Enforcement Acts?
Southern Democrats reversed the voting rights made by African Americans in these TWO ways
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
The 15th Amendment did this
What is give African American men the right to vote?
The lasting effect of the Freedmen's Bureau
What is education?
A white man that voted Republican in the south, were though to be traitors
Who were scalawags?
This act allowed most former Confederates the right to vote again
What is the Amnesty Act of 1872?
These laws were passed in order to separate African Americans and whites in public life
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The 14th Amendment did this
What is grant African Americans equal protection under the law?
The purpose of the Black Codes
What is to control the newly freed slaves?
Northerners who moved to south in order to benefit from the south's misfortune
Who were carpetbaggers?
The year The Reconstruction Era came to an end
What is 1877?
This was the effect of the Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court decision
What is separate but equal public facilities are constitutional?