Marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Granted citizenship to people born in the US (including slaves) & guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of all laws".

Suffrage for all African-American males.

Abolished slavery throughout the United States.

President Andrew Johnson took control of Reconstruction. Confederated states had to ratify the 13th Amendment and they needed to create new governments with new constitutions. This type of Reconstruction was known as...

Term southerners gave to northern white Republicans who they believed had come to the South to get rich. They believed that they had thrown everything they owned into a cheap suitcase and headed south. This belief was a fabrication.

Peace Democrats in the Union who opposed the Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederacy.

Name given to African Americans who migrated from southern states to Kansas. It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War.

First African-American Governor in the United States. He was the lieutenant governor of Louisiana, he later became the acting governor when the state charged his boss with corruption.

First African-American to serve in the U.S. Senate. He was from Mississippi.

He was born into slavery and became the second African-American to serve in the U.S. Senate and the first to be elected to a full term. He was from Mississippi.

Set approximately 400,000 acres south of Charleston, South Carolina for newly freed African Americans. Each family would receive 40 acres to farm and a mule. 40,000 African Americans rushed to settle on the land.

A club that terrorized & killed African-Americans and those who supported African-American rights. They were white supremacist.

to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority: Many klan members did this to black men in the South.

A type of farming where a farmer raises a crop for the landowner in return for part of the money made from selling the crops. This type of farming in the South was usually unsuccessful, the farmer usually broke even at the end of the year.

African-Americans were tied to a landowner's land after the Civil War, even though slavery was illegal, it was sort of economic slavery.

Backroom deal made between Republicans & Democrats that ultimately ended Reconstruction in the South. Republicans won the Presidential nomination & the North agreed to pull federal troops out of the South.

Lost the popular vote in the Presidential election of 1876 but ultimately won the presidency because of the Compromise of 1877.

an official PARDON for people who have been convicted of political offenses.