Memory Game ReconstructionOnline version Key events or concepts from Reconstruction by Daniel Yoder grants all rights and privileges of citizenship to those born or naturalized in the United States Enforcement Acts Radical Republicans Hiram Revels 13th Amendment the right to vote cannot be denied based on race or color Sharecropping Created five districts in the South to be run by the military freedmen Scalawag Reconstruction Act of 1867 KKK Gov't agency that helped freedmen with education, health care, and basic needs. Goal: to gain economic opportunity and make a decent life for themselves exercising new found freedoms Freedmen's Bureau A southern white that votes republican Black Codes Election of Hayes Civil Rights Act of 1866 an economic system in the South that came very close to slavery. Put federal troops in areas of KKK activity and allowed the federal government to oversee local elections Made Black Codes illegal Carpetbagger Southern laws denying rights to African Americans 14th Amendment 15th Amendment abolishes slavery First African American Senator Southern Democrats return to power as Reconstruction winds down. Used intimidation and violence to prevent freedmen from using their new rights. Considered by many to be the end of Reconstruction because of a deal to remove the military from the South A Northerner that goes to the South to take advantage of the economic opportunities there after the Civil War. Goal: Punish the South for the war by taking their power and giving rights and power to freedmen "Redemption"
New game