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USH (3:3) ● Reconstruction: Rebuilding the South, socially and economically, after the Civil War ● Radical Republicans: Wanted to punish the South and help African-Americans achieve equality by giving them the right to vote ● Freedman's Bureau ● Fed and clothed refugees in South ● Helped former slaves find work on plantations ● Established schools
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(3:3) ● The 17 th President: Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) ● Lincoln's Vice-President ● Was a moderate in Reconstruction, like Lincoln ● “Black Codes” – Laws in the South that discriminated against African- Americans
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(3:3) ● Radical Reconstruction ● More harsh towards South than Lincoln and Johnson's moderate plan ● Created by Republicans in Congress ● The 14 th Amendment ● Introduced by the Radical Republicans ● Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
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(3:3) ● Military Reconstruction ● Nullified Johnson's Reconstruction programs ● Divided the South into five military districts
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(3:3) ● The 18 th President: Ulysses S. Grant (1869- 1877) ● The 15 th Amendment ● “The Right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” ● Angered many southern Whites
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(3:3) ● “Carpetbaggers” ● People from the north that moved south to help rebuild ● “Scalawags” ● Southerners on the side of the north and Reconstruction
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(3:3) ● Sharecropper ● People given land to farm ● They paid “rent” in crops, not money ● Many African-Americans ● Debt and the need for credit kept many African- Americans in a slavery-like condition
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