Presidential Reconstrucion | Congressional Reconstruction |
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What is the 1st part of the reconstruction?
Southern states had to create new government to prove loyalty to the union.
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What is the 14th ammendment?
Gave slaves full civil rights to become a citizens
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How was the president who announced the reconstruction plan?
President Johnson
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Why did slaves not buy their own land?
Slaves did not have any money.
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What is the 2nd part of the reconstruction?
Slavery had to be abolished once and for all.
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What is the system called sharecropper?
Farmers who divided the land and rent it out.
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What three purposes did the black codes serve?
1) limit the rights of freedmen
2) help planters find workers to replace slaves 3) keep freedmen at bottom of the social order in south |
Southerners who supported the confederacy were denied the right to what?
Vote
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What is the Freemen's Bureau?
It provided food and medicine for whites and blacks in the south.
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What did the Radical Republicans in congress do to organize the south?
Divided the south into 5 military districts.
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