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