Reconstruction Era

Era of rebuilding after the Civil War; Readmitting the Confederate states into the Union

• Impeachment

• Homestead

• Republicans

• Reconstruction

Series of laws that restricted the rights of Freedmen

• Voting Rights

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

Gave assistance to newly freed slaves following emancipation; 1st schools for African American children

• Voting Rights

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• 13th Amendment

Controlled Congress during Reconstruction; Wanted to use Reconstruction as a way to punish the South

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Impeachment

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Radical Republicans

Begins the process of removing the president from office: Andrew Johnson 1st president to do this

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Impeachment

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Radical Republicans

1st African American elected to the U.S. Senate

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

Freed all slaves

• Voting Rights

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Gives Citizenship to anyone born in the United States

• Voting Rights

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Gave African American men the right to Vote

• Voting Rights

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Restricted by southern states through Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Grandfather Clause

• Voting Rights

• Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Impeachment