Reconstruction Era

13th Amendment

abolished slavery (1865)

14th Amendment

Made African Americans citizens (1868)

13th Amendment

abolished slavery (1865)

14th Amendment

Made African Americans citizens (1868)

15th Amendment

gave African American men the right to vote (1870)

Compromise of 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes would be chosen as president in exchange for federal troops being removed from the south (ended Reconstruction)

Dawes Act

forced Native Americans to divide tribal lands into individual lots disrupting their tribal way of life

Freedman's Bureau

supervised all relief and educational opportunities for former slaves (issuing rations, clothing, and medicine)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

first African American senator from Mississippi

Homestead Act

the adult head of the family could receive 160 acres of public land

Ku Klux Klan

secret society that did not agree with opportunities given to freed slaves and tried to limit them

Morrill Act

established public colleges like Texas A&M! whoop!

Radical Republicans

wanted freedmen to have citizenship and voting rights quickly, they also wanted to seize land from white planters

Reconstruction Act

military occupation of the former Confederate States, strict guidelines on representation and requirement for readmission to the Union

Scalawags

southerns who worked as Radical Republicans and viewed as traitors by southerns

Sharecropping

system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land

Reconstruction Era

the time period when Southern states rejoined the Union from 1865-1877