Reconstruction Key Terms :cassie

The thirteenth This amendment made slavery illegal amendment throughout the united states Even though they were illegal they still were treated like dirt they had to sit in the black of bus and more

http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/9227b7d01263fdee445e9a2756002ba3_1M.png Black codes Or laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans The Black Code were law that the people after the civil war people were limited the basic human rights

http://historymartinez.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/black-codes1.jpg Ku klux klan This secret society opposed civil right ,particularly suffrage for African Americans They are known for the kkk they did not like black people and they used to call them names and threatened them

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Reconstruction

The process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union

the period after the Civil War, 186377, especially regarding the defeated South

http://histclo.com/imagef/date/2008/01/harp66-ed01s.jpg Ten percent plan It offered south-emirs amnesty or official for all illegal supporting the rebellion Lincoln's plan. Republicans feared that the planter aristocracy would be restored and the blacks would be forced back into slavery.

http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/453f81bdadaef4e96364261a220a9f0e_1M.png and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves through legal food http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Freedman_bureau_harpers_cartoon.j pg/300px-Freedman_bureau_harpers_cartoon.jpg Freedmen bureau An agency providing relief not only for freed people and certain poor people but white refugees as well

Radical republicans

On the other hand took a harsher stance they wanted the federal government to force change in the south

were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War)

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Fifteenth amendment

Which gave African American men the right to vote

o the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying

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Reconstruction acts

These laws divided the south into five districts

government in the Southern states as a feature of the system imposed under the Reconstruction Acts was due primarily to the fact

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Hiram revels

There is no sentence for the word

He was the first black man to serve in the U.S SENATE

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http://badboyso.ipower.com/formbuilder/web/forms/the-compromise-of-1877-resulted-in-4917.jpg Poll tax Was a special tax people had to pay before they could vote They had to pay to vote

http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/images/poll-tax-reciept.jpg Segregation The forced separation of whites and African American in public places The blacks could not do anything or vote and could not vote

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Jim crow laws

Laws that enforced segregation

They wanted the white and black not together

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