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Freedmen's Bureau Acts
Offered assistance, such as a medical aid and education, to freed slaves and war refugees -
Civil Rights Act
Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to African Americans -
Ku Klux Klan
This evil Klan existed in nearly every Southern State. Their goal was to restore white supremacy. -
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Abolished governments formed in former Confederate states; divided those states into five military districts; set up requirements for readmission to the union -
Fourteenth Amendment
Makes all persons "born" or naturalized in the United States" Citizens; stipulates that states that prevented male citizens from voting would lose a percentage of their congressional seats; barred most Confederate leaders from holding political offices. -
Ulysses S. Grant Elected
The Democrats knew that they could not win the presidential elections with Johnson, so they nominated the wartime governor of New York. The republicans opponent was the civil war hero Ulysses Grant. Grant won by a large margin in the electoral college. -
Fifteenth Amendment
States that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, pr previous condition or servitude. -
Enforcement Act of 1870
Protected the voting rights of African Americans and gave the federal government power to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. -
The Panic of 1873
Those who invested in these new businesses took on more debt than they could afford. Smaller banks closed, and the stock market temporarily collapsed. -
Election of 1876
Republicans decided not to run the Scandal-plagued Grant for a third term, instead they chose the Stodgy governor of Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes.