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