Reconstruction

Helped Ex-slaves by provided:

Food

Shelter

clothing

medical supplies

schooling for children

This law granted blacks full citizenship and the right to:

The right to make contracts

the right to own property

the right to sue in court

and the right to enjoy the full protection of federal law

Andrew Johnson vetoed this law but congress overrode the veto to make it a law.

This amendment abolished slavery in every state in the U.S.

This amendment gave U.S. citizenship to any person born in the U.S. and guaranteed equal protection under the law to all citizens.

Guaranteed the right to vote to all citizens, regardless of:

Race

color

or previous condition of servitude.

New State governments in the South were Republican dominated, and they passed reform legislation for universal male suffrage.

This was a group of Northern Congressmen that wanted ex-slaves to be granted full political equality.

This law imposed military rule in southern states.

This law also required ratification of the 14th Amendment for readmission to the Union.

Under this law, the 10 Southern states were divided into 5 districts controlled by the military.

They were required to make new constitutions.

Laws passed in the South during Reconstruction that restricted blacks much as they had been as slaves.

Examples: Freedmen were not to be taught to read or write.

Example: Public facilities were segregated.

Limited Voting among blacks and pushed for segregation.

Examples of Jim Crow Laws: “It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.”

—Birmingham, Alabama, 1930

Southerner who had sided with the North during the Civil War.

Landowners made deals with people who could not afford land.

They provided land, seed, and materials and both parties shared the crop.

Gave free federal land west of the Mississippi River.

Gave state federal lands to finance agricultural colleges.

The grant was

originally set up to establish institutions is each state that would educate people in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions that were practical at the time.

Broke up Indian Reservations into sections and sold to non-Native Americans.

The objective of the Dawes Act was to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by annihilating their cultural and social traditions.

Passed by congress to limit the presidents power to dismiss his own Cabinet members without the approval of the Senate.

This law was used as the legal ground for impeaching President Andrew Johnson, whose Reconstruction laws were unpopular with the Radical Republicans in Congress

Johnson's refusal to obey the Tenure of Office Act led to Congressional leaders to try to remove Johnson from office, it failed by one vote.