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