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