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