Reconstruction

Create to stop slavery from expanding west

• Republican Party

• Dred Scott

• James Buchanan

• Free Party

17th President of the United States

• Black codes

• Impeachment

• Andrew Johnson

• Share Cropping

Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil war

• 15th Amendment

• Radical Republicans

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedman Bureau's

Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves

• Impeachment

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

• Andrew Johnson

Acted as a welfare agency to help the poor and war veterans. Largest accomplishment was in education. Helped establish about 3000 schools for freed blacks

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

• Freedman's Bureau

• Civil Rights act of 1866

the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

• Reconstruction

• 14th Amendment

• Popular Sovereignty

• Andrew Johnson

A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.

• Freedman's Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

• Reconstruction

• Radical Republicans

U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed

• 14th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 15th Amendment

• Reconstruction Acts

Charges against a president approved by a majority of the House of Representatives

• 14th Amendment

• Andrew Johnson

• Black Codes

• Impeachment

1865 - Freed all slaves, abolished slavery.

• Sharecropping

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• Black Codes