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Freedmen's Bureau
Freedmen's Bureau provides food for black people. Food, clothing and schools. It also helped people getting jobs when they couldnt have another time. Without freedmen'd bureau, black men would have starved and been without jobs. -
Lincoln assassination
After the war, Lincoln was hated more than ever. he attended a play one night and he was shot by John Wilkes Booth. he died one hour later. he was buried Illinois. -
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Reconstruction
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literacy test
a literacy test was a very hard reading page or pages. It required any black person wanting to vote to read a hard page or pages. and if they failed to know what it was about and could talk about what happened in the page they could not vote. it was another easy way so that black people could not vote. -
13 Amendment
Abollished slavery in United States. And no slave should be treated that way unless they break the law. every black man and women should be treated fairly. -
Black codes
when the black codes were put in place it was made so that no white person could be in the same building as a black man. They had seperate buildings, bathrooms and houses. if you were black and seen with a white man you could be punished. they were unfair and wrong. -
Civil rights act of 1866
this act promised full citizenship to african americans and gave the federal government the power to intervene in state affairs to protect rights. This law stopped black codes. It also contradicted the 1857 Dred Scott Decision of the supreme court, which had ruled that african american were not citizens. -
Cash Crops
Cash crops were used for making moeny. instead of eating the food that was grown, they would sell it. because there was so much cotten being grown they had to lower the price. that forced them to grow more cotten to try and get back what they had lost. -
Sharcropping
Sharcropping is another way of slavery. African Americans could not own land the black codes prevented this. they could reent land off of whites and had to work to be able to stay at the land. the Africans had to give away some of what they made and grew -
Ku Klux Klan
after the war reconstruction began. Northern and southern men started to rebuild the south's schools, banks ect. Riots broke out and whites killed black men with sacks over their heads, they werte called the Ku Klux Klan. they still didnt think that blacks should be trerated fairly, so they just tarted to kill them. -
14th Amendment
On July 9th 1868 it was decided that any person in the United States is a citizen and has the right to vote. No person can deny them their rights. No one can deny them property, or a place to live. No state can deprive any person of life or libertry without due proces of law. -
15th Amendment
If you are a citizien of the United States you can not deny anyone the right to vote. No State can deny any person the right to vote. No matter their race, color or previous condition of servitude. -
Poll Tax
Poll tax was a unfair way of white trying to get blacks to not be anble to work. Blacks right after the war had no meoney and had no way of getting money. and the poll tax required a certain amount of money if a black person were to vote. It could have been a large amount of money because no one could stop them. -
African American Government
in nthe new government, blacks were alolowed to run for things. a black man named Blanche K Bruce ( born in mississippi) was elected Sentator he was a former slave. he escaped and taught at schools with other African Americans. -
Segregation
Most public school favored whites that attended them. the white schools were more well kept than the black schools. After the Jim Crow LAws they seperated most public places from whites and blacks. -
Grandfather Clause
the grandfather clause was for people who failed the literacy test. If your grandfather voted so could you. But the tricky part about this is that black peoples grandfathers were slaves so they still couldnt vote if they failed the litercacy test. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Plessy vs Ferguson was all about whites and blacks being seperated but still equal. like bathrooms, black bathrooms and white bathrooms. But the white bathrooms were much cleaner and the black bathrooms were gross and unclean. It was clearly not fair but no one could really do anything.
