Reconstruction

Abolished Slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

An order by President Lincoln that freed slaves in states that were fighting against the Union.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

Where a poor farmer who did not own land would work a plot belonging to a landowner. The farmer would receive a share of the harvest as payment.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

Anybody had the right to vote. Nobody could be excluded(shut out) based on race, color, or servitude.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Laws that treated blacks unfairly. Created hatred, lynchings, and even death of blacks

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

A time when the South had to rebuild. They had to rejoin the Union.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

way to rebuild the South after the Civil War. It abolished slavery, gave African Americans rights they didn't have, and placed restrictions on the South for succeding from the Union.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

anyone who has been "born or naturalized" has equal rights under the law.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

A political organization that was disrupting the republican party, and stopping African Americans from having rights. They usually used violence and intimidation to achieve their goals.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Codes

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction