The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools.

Which amendment defines 'citizenship' as 'all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.'?

(1862) Federal law that gave land to western states to build agricultural and engineering colleges.

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

Transcontinental Railroad

A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coast of the US

the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

..., Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25.

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

1887, dismantled American Indian tribes, set up individuals as family heads with 160 acres, tried to make rugged individualists out of the Indians, attempt to assimilate the Indian population into that of the American

Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude

became the 1st African American elected to Congress.

A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states;

Southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction

A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

April 14, 1865 (good friday) performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater shot by John Wilkes Booth

A plan by Abraham Lincoln that would help restore the South by allowing a southern state to rejoin the union if at least 10% of it's voters swore loyalty to the union and if slavery were abolished. The plan also gave amnesty to some southerners.

17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president.

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Reconstruction

Question	Answer
13th Amendment	Abolished Slavery
Freedman's Bureau	The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools.
14th Amendment	Which amendment defines 'citizenship' as 'all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.'?
Morrill Act	(1862) Federal law that gave land to western states to build agricultural and engineering colleges.
Black Codes	Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
Transcontinental Railroad	A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coast of the US
Reconstruction	the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
Sharecropping	A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
Homestead Act	..., Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25.
Radical Republicans	After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.
Dawes Act	1887, dismantled American Indian tribes, set up individuals as family heads with 160 acres, tried to make rugged individualists out of the Indians, attempt to assimilate the Indian population into that of the American
15th Amendment	Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
Hiram Rhodes Revels	became the 1st African American elected to Congress.
Carpetbaggers	A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states;
Scalawags	Southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction
Ku Klux Klan	A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights
Plessy v. Ferguson	a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Lincoln Assassinated	April 14, 1865 (good friday) performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater shot by John Wilkes Booth
10 Percent Plan	A plan by Abraham Lincoln that would help restore the South by allowing a southern state to rejoin the union if at least 10% of it's voters swore loyalty to the union and if slavery were abolished. The plan also gave amnesty to some southerners.
Andrew Johnson	17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president.

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