Memory ReconstructionVersion en ligne Key events or concepts from Reconstruction par Daniel Yoder Created five districts in the South to be run by the military Goal: to gain economic opportunity and make a decent life for themselves exercising new found freedoms Radical Republicans Made Black Codes illegal First African American Senator Carpetbagger Sharecropping "Redemption" Election of Hayes Gov't agency that helped freedmen with education, health care, and basic needs. Used intimidation and violence to prevent freedmen from using their new rights. Civil Rights Act of 1866 the right to vote cannot be denied based on race or color Reconstruction Act of 1867 freedmen 13th Amendment Freedmen's Bureau Enforcement Acts A southern white that votes republican A Northerner that goes to the South to take advantage of the economic opportunities there after the Civil War. an economic system in the South that came very close to slavery. Hiram Revels Black Codes 15th Amendment Southern Democrats return to power as Reconstruction winds down. 14th Amendment grants all rights and privileges of citizenship to those born or naturalized in the United States Put federal troops in areas of KKK activity and allowed the federal government to oversee local elections Southern laws denying rights to African Americans KKK Considered by many to be the end of Reconstruction because of a deal to remove the military from the South Scalawag Goal: Punish the South for the war by taking their power and giving rights and power to freedmen abolishes slavery