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reconstruction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What does reconstruction mean? | to build something again |
| When did the reconstruction happen? | after the civil war, 1865-1877 |
| When did congress write the Reconstruction acts and what did they say? | African American men could vote and confederate leaders and military could not hold a public office |
| When was the 13th amendment written and what did it say? | December 1865 freed slaves and banned slavery |
| When was the 14th amendment written and what did it say? | 1868 made all slaves citizens and granted all people born in US citizenship |
| When was the 15th amendment written and what did it say? | 1870 all male citizens right to vote; African Americans could now vote and hold office |
| Freedmen's Bureau | March 1865 organization that helped feed, clothe and provide medical care for freed slaves; helped African Americans with legal help and schools for them; helped poor whites who lost everything in the war |
| Sharecropping | landowners would lend workers a place to live, seeds and farming equipment; paid with a small portion of the crops...workers had no money for rent so they paid with crops...gave them little chance to ever own their own land |
| Right to vote | African Americans held local and state offices as Republicans whites rallied as Democrats By 1870, white southern democrats took over all state offices |
| Joseph H. Rainey | 1st African American member of the House of Representatives |
| disenfranchisement | by 1900, block the black vote required to pay a tax to vote...most blacks were too poor required to read a passage to vote...most blacks could not read |
| Jim Crow Laws | racial segregation...keep whites and blacks apart separate drinking fountains, schools, restaurants, phone booths, hospitals, hotels took nearly 100 years to get rid of these laws |
| Who became president after Abe Lincoln was shot? | Andrew Johnson |
| What was the KKK? | organization that used violence against African Americans |
| sharecropping vs slavery (compare) | slavery--owned, no money, no freedom, worked on plantations sharecropping--no money, worked on plantations, no own land or house |
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