Social Studies

What was Johnsons plan?

Readmit Confederate states into the Union with minimal conditions, including an oath of allegiance, the abolition of slavery via the 13th Amendment, and the annulment of war debts.

What was the freedmans bureau?

The Freedmen's Bureau was a federal agency established in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people and poor white Southerners after the Civil War by providing basic necessities like food, shelter, medical care, and clothing, and by overseeing legal matters such as land distribution, establishing schools, and reuniting families.

What were black codes?

Blacks could not vote

Blacks could not testify against a white

Blacks cannot be on a jury

Blacks could not handle weapons

Blacks could not enter any work other than farming without permission

Blacks cannot enter city limits without a pass from their employer

Blacks could not quit a job before their contract was up

Blacks could not buy rent farmland

Black could not be married

blacks had no schools

Blacks had a curfew

Blacks would be arrested if they did not have a home or a job and would be hired to whoever would pay their fine

What were the 13,14, and 15 amendments?

13: Would end slavery

14: Citizenship had to include blacks

15: The right to vote should not be denied on account of race or color.

Define tenant farmer

A farmer Who rents farms and farms it, and pays for the rent by a portion of the crops or real money

Define Sharecroppers

Farmers who work at another person’s land and get paid with a portion of the crops

Define reconstruction

Reconstruction of the south meant more than repairing the war damage

Define amnesty

A general pardon to all Southerners, who took the loyalty oath

Define yeoman farmer

Small farmers who cultivated their own land

Define black Codes

Black codes were lost at limited what free Black people could do

Define radical

People want to make great changes

Define scalawag

People from the south that agreed with the north

Define carpetbaggers

People from the north that moved south after the war and blacks include

Define redemption

Meant the restoration of white leadership

Define white supremacy

The power of lights over blacks