Reconstruction Issues 13 th Amendment 1.Black Codes 2.14 th Amendment 3.Reconstruction Act of Impeaching President Johnson 5.15 th Amendment 6.Resistance to Reconstruction 7.Education and Farming 8.Voting Restrictions
13 th Amendment NO SLAVERY-Abolition
Black Codes Local laws in South that HURT AA’s Jim Crow laws
14 th Amendment Full citizenship to people born in US Equal protection
Reconstruction Act of 1867 Created 5 military districts in South To stop racism (KKK)
Impeaching Johnson Johnson vetoing legislation on reconstruction Vetoes the freedman's bureau Fires secretary of war violating tenure of office act
15 th Amendment All citizens can vote
Resistance to Reconstruction Southerners against reconstruction KKK uses violence to deny rights
Education and Farming North build academies (to learn about farming) Sharecropping Tenant Farming
Voting Restrictions Literacy Test-test to vote Poll Tax-pay to vote Grandfather Clause-help illiterate Southern males