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