Unit 7: Reconstruction

Ended slavery in the United States.

• 14th amendment

• 13th amendment

• Freedman’s Bureau

• 15th amendment

Gave African-Americans United States Citizenship

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• Radical Republicans

Gave African-American men the right to vote

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• Congressional reconstruction

Terrorist organization created to intimidate improvement freed men and Republicans from gaining political power in the south.

• The Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

• Black legislators

• The Friedmans bureau

Federal agency created in 1865 to provide a to former slaves.

• The Ku Klux Klan

• The Friedmans bureau

• Tenant farmers

• Sharecroppers

During the reconstruction, sixty-nine African-American served as delegates to George’s constitutional convention or service members of the state legislator. These men and women were removed from their seat after 1876

• Radical Republicans

• Tenant farmers

• Sharecroppers

• Black legislators

Farmers who agreed to work on land owners property. These farmers owned their own animals, farming equipment, and seed.

• Tenant farmers

• Sharecroppers

• Black legislators

• Slaves

Farmers who agreed to work on the land owners property. These farmers were required to provide the land owner with a share of the crop. These farmers did not own farm equipment animals, or seed.

• Tenant farmers

• Sharecroppers

• Slaves

• Radical Republicans

Reconstruction were Congress took responsibility for bringing the South back into the union.

• Military reconstruction

• Presidential reconstruction

• Congressional reconstruction

• Radical reconstruction

Reconstruction period where the military took responsibility for bringing the south back into the union; the south was divided into five military districts.

• Presidential reconstruction

• congressional reconstruction

• Military reconstruction

• Shermans reconstruction