Reconstruction

The time period after the Civil War when the country (south) was rebuilding physically, mentally, and socially.

• Reconstruction

• West Ward Expansion

• Industrial Revolution

• Progressive Era

The first Reconstruction President. He was a Democrat and impeached, but not removed from office.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

Second Reconstruction President, in office when the 15th amendment was passed. Known for imprisoning KKK leaders.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

This amendment ended slavery.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Farmers (former slaves) that worked the plantations and shared a large portion of the crop they harvested with the land owner, keeping the farmer poor.

• Sharecropper

• Tenant Farmer

• Debt Peonage

Farmers (former slave) that paid a high rent to live and work on the farmers to the landowners.

• Sharecropper

• Tenant Farmer

• Debt Peonage

System in which landowners would loan money, supplies, and other needed things to farmers and in return the farmer would have to work off their debt on the landowners farm.

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

• Debt Peonage

Which was NOT a way many southern states and southerners worked around the 13th amendment?

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

• Debt Peonage

• Freedmen's Bureau

Granted citizenship to all born in the U.S. (except Native Americans).

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Black Codes

Granted African American men the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau