Reconstruction

These were Southern Laws that limited the rights of African Americans

• Black Codes

• Emancipation Laws

• Jerry Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

This organization violently opposed African Americans rights to property and suffrage.

• The Freemen's Bureau

• Carpet Baggers

• Ku Klux Klan

• Scalawags

This Amendment granted people born into the United with Citizenship Rights and provided Civil Rights.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

This was a derogatory name that was given to Northerners who came to the south to profit off of Reconstruction.

• Scalawags

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecroppers

• Carpet Baggers

This organization was created to help African Americans assimilate into life after slavery. They provided job training, built schools, and provided protection.

• The KKK

• Freedmen's Bureau

• The Military Reconstruction Acts

• Carpet Baggers

This Amendment ended the institution of slavery in the US.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

This Amendment granted African American men with the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

This was a secret deal that led to the end of Reconstruction, the removal of troops from the south, and the election of Rutherford B. Hayes.

• The Compromise of 1899

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• The Compromise of 1877

• The agreement of 1990

What is sharecropping?

• a work system that replaced slavery after the Civil War that helped plantation owners rebuild their businesses

• a job on a farm only freedmen could hold

• a paid position working on a farm that was difficult to get after the Civil War

• a system of labor that offered many opportunities to freedmen and their families

The period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern states into the Union

• Reconstruction

• Equitable

• Segregation

• Amnesty