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| 10314160294 | Freedmen's Bureau | First Federally Established Social Service Agency. Directed by O.O Howard. Established by Congress in 1865, was an attempt to assist freed slaves and poor whites. Agents were supposed to establish schools help the poor and settle dispute between whites and blacks along with helping to ensure that former slaves were treated equally in courts. Lasted 5 years, was very successful. | 0 | |
| 10314160295 | O. O. Howard | Graduate of Bowdian and Civil War Veteran, was a director of the Freedmen Bureau | 1 | |
| 10314160296 | sharecropping | A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. | 2 | |
| 10314160297 | crop lien system | System that allowed farmers to get more money/credit. Farmers used harvested crops to pay back their loans. | 3 | |
| 10314160298 | Sea Island Experiment | slaves owner fled island and the slaves were left to do as they wanted. they got rid of all cotton products and enjoyed freedom. Schools were established. | 4 | |
| 10314160299 | Andrew Johnson | Sucessor to Lincoln, was given the task of overseeing reconstruction. Was a strong defender of the Union. Assisted in reconstruction. Was a democrat, not as open to reform, was widely disliked. Was impeached for firing Edward Stanton by House of Representatives, stayed in office by one vote from Senate. | 5 | |
| 10314160300 | Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) | Started by series of proclamations issued by Johnson. Offered pardon for most southern whites who took union allegiance. Let the states back in. | 6 | |
| 10314160301 | Black Codes | Laws in Southern States that restricted the freedoms of Blacks. Included banning blacks from voting,serving in juries and prohibiting them from testifying against whites in court. Made blacks that wanted to continue working sign yearly labor contracts | 7 | |
| 10314160302 | Radical Republicans | Thought the south should be heavily punished and that lincoln was too lenient. Lead by Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens | 8 | |
| 10314160303 | Charles Sumner | Senator from Massachusetts who was a radical republican | 9 | |
| 10314160304 | Thaddeus Stevens | Senator from Pennsylvania who was a radical republican. Wanted to divide former slave land among the slaves. | 10 | |
| 10314160305 | Civil Rights Bill (1866) | Passed over Andrew Johnson's veto, the bill aimed to counteract the Black Codes by conferring citizenship on African Americans and making it a crime to deprive blacks of their rights to sue, testify in court, or hold property. | 11 | |
| 10314160306 | 14th amendment | Gave all people born in US citizenship in the US. | 12 | |
| 10314160307 | Reconstruction Act (1867) | Passed by the newly-elected Republican Congress, it divided the South into five military districts, disenfranchised former confederates, and required that Southern states both ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and write state constitutions guaranteeing freedmen the franchise before gaining readmission to the Union. | 13 | |
| 10314160308 | Radical Reconstruction (1867-1877) | A group within the Republican Party during the Civil War and Reconstruction who advocated abolition of slavery, citizenship for the former slaves, and sweeping alteration of the South; Republican faction that tried to limit presidential power and enhance congressional authority during the Civil War; Radicals opposed moderation toward the South or any toleration of slavery. | 14 | |
| 10314160309 | Election of 1868 | Won by Ulysses S. Grant whom was of the Republican Party | 15 | |
| 10314160310 | 15th amendment | Amendment that said Said that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of their race. | 16 | |
| 10314160311 | scalawags | Southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction | 17 | |
| 10314160312 | Ku Klux Klan | Racist group formed in the Tennessee by Democrats in 1866. Included planters, merchants, and Democratic politicians. Attacked mainly blacks, but also white republicans. Many men participated, woman made the robes. | 18 | |
| 10314160313 | Enforcement Acts | Adopted by congress in response to the Ku Klux Klan, outlawed terrorist societies and allowed for the president to use armies against them. | 19 | |
| 10314160314 | Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Enacted by Congress to outlaw racial discrimination in public places like theaters and hotels, made clear that northerns were retreating from southern reconstruction. | 20 | |
| 10314160315 | Bargain of 1877 | Agreement that said Republican Rutherford B. Hayes would become president, while awknolodging democratic control of the south, and that a southerner would be placed on cabinet position as Postmaster general. | 21 |
