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