Chapter 15 - Reconstruction and the New South

African Americans

African Americans

As tenants and sharecroppers, ________ enjoyed at least a physical independence from their landlords and had the sense of working their own land, even if in most cases they could never hope to buy it.

Civil War

The ________ was a catastrophe for the South with no parallel in Americas experience as a nation.

New Orleans

________ set up an integrated school system under the Reconstruction government; again, whites almost universally stayed away.

night of April

On the ________ 14, 1865, the president and his wife attended a play at Fords Theater in Washington.

Johnson himself

________ was an intemperate and tactless man, filled with resentments and insecurities.

Johnson

________ helped white southerners to return to their land, he did little in support of the former slaves.

Fourteenth Amendment

The ________ offered the first constitutional definition of American citizenship: everyone born in the United States, and everyone naturalized, was automatically a citizen and entitled to all the "privileges and immunities "guaranteed by the Constitution, including equal protection of the laws by both the state and national governments.

Congress

In March 1865, ________ established the Freedmens Bureau, an agency of the army directed by General Oliver O. Howard.

Freedmens Bureau

The ________ distributed food to millions of former slaves.

military commander

A(n) ________ governed each district and had orders to register qualified voters.

African Americans

For ________, freedom meant above all an end to slavery and to all the injustices and humiliation they associated with it.