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Reconstruction
Question | Answer |
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Johnson, a native southerner, was sympathetic to | The South |
Govt. agency that helped freed slaves by providing: food/clothing, jobs, medical care and education | Freedmen’s Bureau |
Reconstruction Amendments abolished slavery | 13th |
Reconstruction Amendments granted citizenship to persons born or naturalized in US as well as equal protection under the law | 14th |
Reconstruction Amendments gave freedmen the right to VOTE | 15th |
a system of renting and farming a piece land where land owner would often provide seed, fertilizer and tools | sharecropping |
Who did the sharecropping? | African Americans and poor whites throughout South |
laws put in place in the South during the early years after the Civil War that severely limited the rights of freedmen | Black Codes |
Who in Congress were outraged, took charge of Reconstruction and threw out these laws known as Black Codes | Radical Republicans |
After Reconstruction, southern states put these measures in place as a way to stop blacks from exercising their right to vote: | Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests |
Laws created in the South that legally separated the races; aka - segregation | Jim Crow Laws |
Republican Rutherford B Hayes was elected in 1876; removes all federal troops in southern states, and marks the end of which time period in U.S. History | End of Reconstruction |
The 14th amendment made these unconstitutional | Black Codes |
How was life for African Americans after Reconstruction | African Americans still found it difficult to have equal rights. |
Why were military districts created during Reconstruction | To make sure the Southern states followed the law and did not discriminate against African Americans. |
Military Reconstruction was supported by this group | Radical Republicans |
The Compromise of 1877 got rid of these in the South | Federal Troops |
What group of people intimidated, lynched, and tried to take away the rights of African Americans | KKK or Ku Klux Klan |
Who was against the Freedmen's Bureau | President Johnson and Southern Democrats |