Black southerners
4 million freed slaves were beginning a new life in a poor region with a wrecked economyMost were homeless and jobless
land owners
a person who owns land, especially a large amount of land.
poor whites
They rented farm land from landowners and paid for rent with crops. Owned no slaves, but could vote.
preparing for reunion
1- rebuilding the south and union 2- enslaved people now became freedmen and were former slaves
FREEDMEN
movement own land worship learn
president Lincoln had a plan for reconstruction goes back to early as 1863 the plan was called the
ten percent plan
amnesty
pardon to confederates to swore loyalty to the union
Lincoln did a pocket veto
president didn't sign it and time runs out
the burnea that help freed slaves
The freemen's bureau
Andrew johnson ratiffied what?
13 ammendemnt
black codes
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
fourteenth amendment did what?
ammadment equal protection
which side took over after lincon died?
the radicals
who was the first presdent to get impeached?
president johnson
in 1869 the republicans in congress proposed the 15th amendeny which made people black men what?
to vote
hiram became the first black ______ in 1870
senator
share croops
. most common . worksers farm the land get a "share" of the harvest . strict rules . lived on land. black and whites participated . often ended in a "cycle of debt
tenant farming
rented landneeded everything to farmrequired money up frony higher socials status then sharecroppers
scalwages were traitors of what?
the south
carpetbaggers were what?
poor norths coming to the south
the KKK was form for what?
to make afircan americans lose there right