ReconstructionVersion en ligne The period after the Civil War was called Reconstruction. par Aaron Stinson 1 13 Amendment 2 14th Amendment 3 15th Amendment 4 Tenant Farmer 5 Sharecropper 6 Freedmen's Bureau Abolished Slavery ended the institution of slavery lead to the freeing of 4 million slaves Equal Citizenship Could not be denied rights of a citizen based on race. Created to prevent the Black Codes Gave African American men the right to vote African Americans had the right to vote and run for office Prevented Southern politicians from preventing African Americans from voting Paid to rent land Had the freedom to make their own farming decisions owned a small home, farm tools, and a horse or mule. rarely worked up from poverty farmed someone else's land landowner provided seeds, beasts of burden, farm tools, housing, and food, established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance fed millions of people, built hospitals and provided medical aid, negotiated labor contracts for ex-slaves and settled labor disputes. instrumental in building thousands of schools