Reconstruction

Freedmans Bueruo

aided for enslaved people and poor whites by providing food, housing, and medical care

KKK

White supermacists to gain power and control over the south, terroized black people and acted in murder

Susan B. Anthony

womens rights activist, played a role in women’s suffrage movement, got arrested for voting to challenge the discriminatory laws against women

Jim Crow Laws

segregation, ‘separate but equal”, One drop rule (any person with even one ancestor of Black African ancestry is considered Black, violated rights and elevated white supermacy)

“40 acres and a mule”

unfullfilled promise of providing land to formly enslaved people, however, Andrew Johnson revoked the order and returned the land to its previous white owners, displacing thousands of Black families

Grandfather clauses

prevented African Americans from voting while allowing poor illiterate white men to vote

Exodusters

african Americans go west to set up ranches due to violence and massares towards African Americans

13th admendment

abolishment of slavery

14th admendment

citzenship

15th amendment

voting rights

protected African Americans rights from targeting violence and discrimination by groups like the KKK

separate car act

equal but separate railway accommodations for Black and white passengers, mandating segregation in public transportation, It violated the 14th Amendment's