Reconstruction Flashcards
What is the 13 amendment
Banned slavery in the US
What president was assassinated
Abraham Lincoln
Who became vice president after Lincoln‘s assassination?
Andrew Johnson
What did the Freemans bureau do?
Provided aid to African-Americans it was an act that was money for education, hospitals, social services, churches, and helped with labor contracts in discrimination cases
What did the civil rights act of 1866 do
A law that gave African-Americans citizenship in didn’t allow states from passing laws that discriminated against former slaves
What did the 14th amendment do?
Prevented states from denying rights of citizenship to people based on race
What Republican was impeached?
Andrew Johnson
What did the 15th amendment do?
No one could be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous servitude
What were Scally wags?
White farmers
What were carpet baggers?
Northerners who came to the south and search of opportunity after the war
African-Americans were 90%
Republicans
White southern terrorist group
Ku Klux Klan
