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Freeedman's Bureau
The bureau helped African Americans adjust, or adapt, to freedom. It provided food, clothing, and medical services. It helped freed people aquire land or find work for fair wages. -
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Recontsruction Era(Kimmie)
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Abe's Death
When Abraham Lincoln attwnted a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, entered the private box and shot Lincoln in the head. Lincoln died several hours later. -
Civil Rights Act
This act granted full citizenship to African Americans and gave the federal government the power to intervene in state affairs to protect their rights. The law overturned black codes. It also contradicted the 1857 Dred Scott decision of the Supremem Court, which had ruled that African Americans were not citizens. -
Black Codes
Laws to control freed men and women. The black codes trampled the right of African Americans. They allowed plantation owners to exploit African American workers and allowed officials to arrest and fine jobless African Americans. The codes also banned African Americans from owning or renting farms. To freed men and women and many Northerners, the black codes resembled slavery. -
Civil Rights Act
This act granted full citizenship to African Americans and gave the federal government the power to intervene in state affairs to protect their rights. The law overturned black codes. It also contradicted the 1857 Dred Scott decision of the Supremem Court, which had ruled the African Americans were not citizens. -
Tenure of Office Act
It prohibited the president from removing government officials, including members of his own cabinet, without the Senate's apprival. -
Impeachment of the President
The conflicts between Johnson and the Radicals grew more intense. When Congress was not in session, Johnson suspended Secretary of War Edwin Stanton without Sentate's approval. Outraged by Johnson's actions, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president with wrongdoing. -
First Reconstruction Act
Called for the creation of new governments in the 10 Southern states that had not ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. The act divided the 10 Southern states into 5 military districts, each run by a military commander until new governments were formed. The act also guaranteed African American men the right to vote in state elections and banned former Confederate leaders from holding political office. -
Second Reconstruction Act
Required the military commanders to register voters and prepare for state constitutional conventions. -
The Fourteenth Amendment
It granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States had been born in the country, they became full citizens. The amendment also stated that no state could take away a citizen's life, liberty, or property "without due process of law". In addition to this, every citizen was entitled to "equal protection of the laws". If a state prevented any adult male citizen from voting, then it could lose some of its representation in Congress. -
The Fifteenth Amendment
It prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
Sharecropping
In this system, a landowner rented a plot of land to a sharecropper, or farmer, along with a crude shack, some seeds and tools, and perhaps a mule. In return, sharecroppers shared a percentage of their crops with the landowners. -
Amnesty Act
Pardoned most former Confederates. Nearly all white Southerners could vote and hold office again. The amnesty changed the political balance in the South by restoring full rights to people who supported the Democratic Party. -
Carpetbaggers
Many Northern whites who moved to the South after the war also supported the Republicans. Critics called these Northerners carpetbaggers because they arrived with all their belongings in cheap suitcases made of carpet fabroc. Although some carpetbaggers were dishonest, most were not. Many were reformers who wanted to help the South, -
Election of 1876
President Grant considered running for a third term. Most Republican leaders prefered a new candidate, one who could win back the Liberal Republicans and unite the party. The Republicans nominated Rutherford B. Hayes, governor of Ohio. The Democrats nominated New York governor Samuel Tilden. Tilden gained fame for fighting political corruption in New York City. Tilden appeared to be the winner, recieving almost 250,000 more votes than Hayes. -
Compromise of 1877
The new government would give more aid to the South. Republicans agreed to withdraw all remaining troops from Southern states. Without soldiers to support them, the remaining Republican governments in South Carolina and Louisiana quickly collapsed. The Democrats, in turn, promised to maintain African American rights. -
Democrats in Control
In some regions, the ruling Democrats were the large landowners and other groups that held power before the Civil War. In many areas, however, new leaders took charge. Among their ranks were merchants, bankers, and other business leaders who supported economic development.
