Reconstruction

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 14th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What was segregation?

• equal treatment for all people
• the forced separation of races
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War

What was Reconstruction?

• equal treatment for all people
• the forced separation of races
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War

The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

• Bureau of Parks and Recreation
• Free Food Bureau
• Jobs and Education Bureau
• Freedman's Bureau

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These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working.  Once arrested they would be forcibly assigned to work for white landowners. 

• Freedman's Bureau Laws
• Reconstruction Acts
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

Reconstruction was the process of

• rebuilding the South after the Civil War
• creating land zones for freedmen after the Civil War
• instituting Black Codes for former slaves
• eliminating the plantation economy in the South

Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as

• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• Carpetbaggers
• Sharecroppers

Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from the South in order to win the Presidency in the Election of 1876. This--

• started Reconstruction
• got him impeached
• made Southern Democrats angry
• ended Reconstruction