reconstruction era

Freedmen's Bureau

Federal government agency that severed free African Americans after slavery was abolished (enforced the 13th amendment and opportunities to succeed )

Civil Rights Act of 1866

-Gave everyone birthright citizenship and basic rights to all humans no matter race

-Marked the first time Congress had legislated in civil rights and the first significant law to override a presidential veto

14th Amendment (1868)

Everyone born in the U.S. is a citizen

15th Amendment (1870)

-the right to vote can not be taken away based on a persons race

• people believed that it increased the power of federal gov. at the expense of the states and that it didnt go far enough

Compromise of 1877

ends federal intervention in the south and withdrew federal troops in Louisiana and South Carolina

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Declared racial segregation constitutional as long as the facilities were equal

Military Reconstruction Act

divided the 10 southern states into 5 military districts

Andrew Johnsons' ideologies/actions

-main goal is to maintain white supremacy and a subservient black labor force

• offered general amnesty to all southerners who took an oath if future loyalty

demanded that high-ranking Confederate officials petitioned him personally

-vetoed civil rights bill

freedmen's bureau

• attacked Republican reconstruction plan by saying it was overly costly and gave African Americans more rights

giving wealth to "lazy" African Americans

• stated freedom to the black man only meant to have the right to be able to enjoy their own work

-Had confederates who exceeded the finical threshold were required to petition Johnson personally

Massacres of Memphis and New Orleans 1866

showed for the need of military presence in the South to protect African Americans

Fredrick Douglass's Eulogy for Lincoln

• Lincoln was killed because of his beliefs

• Lincoln was the black mans president who was the first to show any respect for them

still being excluded from his funeral

What were direct responses to Black Codes

14th Amendment and the Civil RIghts Act of 1866

President Ulysses S