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