SSUSH10 Reconstruction

Agency set up to providing medical care, education and daily essentials to poor whites and former slaves in adjusting to freedom.

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction

1865 - Freed all slaves, abolished slavery.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Emancipation Proclamation

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

• Poll Tax

• Grandfather Clause

• Black Codes

• Literacy Test

Made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

17th President and first to be accused of impeachment.

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Samuel Tilden

After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was too lenient on the South.

• Radical Republicans

• Radical Democrats

• Radical Whigs

• Radical Free-Soilers

Type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens' rights are suspended.

• Military Law

• Martial Law

• Military Surveillance Law

• Quartering Law

A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.

• Tenant Farmer

• Slave

• Indentured Servant

• Sharecropper

A terrorist organization created by white southerners in 1866 that used murder, intimidation and violence to keep Blacks from obtaining social, political and economic equality .

• Ku Klux Klan

• Knights of the White Camellia

• Order of the Pale Faces

• Grand Wizard

Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden tied in an election. Democrats said, "Hayes can be president if you get rid of the troops here in the south," Thus ending reconstruction

• Presidential Election of 1876

• Presidential Election of 1872

• Presidential Election of 1880

• Presidential Election of 1865