-
Period: to
reconstruction
reconsruction period -
abe. Lincoln's death
john wilkes booth was an confederate sympathizer. he was a actor who asasanted abe. lincolan. -
shar crop
whits give a home for the freed amaricns for a portion of the crops. -
14th amendment
it granted full citesine ship to all people born in the U.S. most of the africns were born in the U.S. so they were full citecens. -
black coeds
laws to control freed men and women. it trampled the rights of africne amaricans. -
litercy test
had to tack a test for people to vote. south did this because they new that the africns had little education. -
first recnsrution act
for the creation of new governments in the 10 southern states that had not ratif ied the 14th amend ment. -
Grandfather Claus
It allowed people to vote if they did not pass the literacy test. The grandfather claus was if your grandfather did not take the literacy test you did not have too. -
15th amendment
perhiviting any state denying a race to vote. -
poll tax
a payment people had to pay to vote -
amnesty act
most of the wight south held offies agen. people who supported the democratic party got full rights agan. -
blanche K. Bruce
a senitor who lived in mississippi. he was a former escaped slave. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Govenor of Ohio, a champion of political reform, Hayes had a reputation of honesty, he held moderate views on reconstruction.... -
The Compromiseof 1877
The compromise of 1877 included some favors to the South. The new goverment would give more aid to the south. -
Southern Mills
BY 1890 soutern Mills Produced nearly twemty percent of the nation iron and steel. Much of the industry was in Alabama near deposit of iron ore. -
Jim crow laws
African American and whites to be seperated in every public place. In 1896 the supreme court up held segregation laws in Plessy v. Ferguson.
