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