Unit 7.2 and Civil War continued

who was president while trying to rebuild the country

President Johnson

Freemans Bureau

provides services to former slave, financial services

Northern whites influence on south

come down to help blacks with education

sharecropping

gets portion of crops grow by renting part of land from landowner

The black codes

forced former slaves to sign yearly labor contracts (couldn’t read the contracts- basically got sentenced to slavery again)

Vagrancy Laws

black man unemployed is a crime

Radical Republicans enthusiast

Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Summner

Civil Rights Act of 1866

involves 14th Amendment

14 Amendment

born in US get birthright citizen

15th Amendment

can’t deny right to vote no matter race/color (not women)

1866 Midterm Election (during Johnson’s presidency)

Northerners support for Radical Republicans helps them gain seats in congress

result of the midterm election of 1866

ends reconstruction and opens up radical reconstruction

Radical Reconstruction

gov in charge of enforcing policies

Ulysses S. Grant

president during radical reconstruction/ former military role for Union

Black guy in congress

Robert Smalls

carpet baggers

Northerners coming down south to make fast $$ and take advantage

scalawags

Southern white settler who support Northern ideas/ disloyal

KKK purpose

white men in south trying to save white supremacy

what would the KKK do to ensure their superiorty

they would kill the people who voted for the opposing party of KKK’s favor

Enforcement Act

laws passed to outlaw terrorist societies and can US army to suppress

Department of Justice

investigate people in KKK federal pressure helped KKK dissipate

Election of 1876

Rutherford Hayes (dem) vs. Tilden (rep)

states republicans were in

Louisiana, Florida, SC

outcome of 1876

tie, went to house and Hayes won (Bargain of 1877)

what happens to end reconstruction

federal gov protections removed from states and democratic ideas