Reconstruction Review

When people would rent their land to farmers and be paid for it with a share of the crop

• share-cropping

• slavery

• black codes

• amendments

A system put in place by white southerners to keep the free African Americans from voting, traveling, and working

• share-cropping

• slavery

• black codes

• amendments

A law added to the Constitution to ensure it is followed

• share-cropping

• slavery

• black codes

• amendments

A hate group formed to try to return slavery to the US and commit violent crimes against African Americans

• The Klu Klux Klan (KKK)

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Wilkes Booth

• Share Cropping

President during the Civil War and following it.

• The Klu Klux Klan (KKK)

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Wilkes Booth

• Andrew Johnson

Man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

• The Klu Klux Klan (KKK)

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Wilkes Booth

• Andrew Johnson

Became president after Abraham Lincoln died

• The Klu Klux Klan (KKK)

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Wilkes Booth

• Andrew Johnson

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• freed and attempted to help 4,000,000 enslaved people

• freed black men only and punished women

• told white americans they HAD to call freed slaves "Freedmen"

• sent all the enslaved people outside of the US to be freed

Amendment that makes all slavery illegal in the US

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Amendment passed in 1868 - gave African Americans official citizenship and states had to provide protection for them.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th