US History 8 Unit 11 Reconstruction

the 13th Amendment

• Abolished slavery

• Provided African Americans with citizenship rights

• Gave African American males the right top vote

• Rebuilding of the South

the 14th Amendment

• Abolished slavery

• Provided African Americans with citizenship rights

• Gave African American males the right top vote

• Rebuilding of the South

the 15th Amendment

• Abolished slavery

• Provided African Americans with citizenship rights

• Gave African American males the right top vote

• Rebuilding of the South

era of Reconstruction

• Abolished slavery

• Provided African Americans with citizenship rights

• Gave African American males the right top vote

• Rebuilding of the South

Who was President during Reconstruction?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• John Quincy Adams

President after Lincoln, sympathized with the south; He vetoed the Civil Rights Act but Radical Republicans overrode his veto

• Andrew Johnson

• Jefferson Davis

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Ulysses S Grant

Southerners who worked with Republicans

• Carpet Baggers

• Scalawags

• lily-livered

• Yellow Bellies

Ways the Freedmen’s Bureau helped newly freed African Americans

• find jobs, education, housing, healthcare

• Distributed 40 acres and a mule to all former slaves

• Southerners who worked with Republicans

• Laws passed by southern states to control free men and women

Laws passed by southern states to control free men and women

• Carpet Baggers

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Black Codes

• Revels

Southern laws requiring African Americans and whites to be segregated in public

• Jim Crow Laws

• Rhodes Revelations

• Morse Codes

• Declarations of Segregation