US History
Chapter 17 notes


Name: _______________________________
right: Andrew Johnson, who started as a tailor, with Sec'y of State Seward, busily mending Uncle Sam's torn "coat" –i.e., the Union

Reconstruction Era – the time of _______________________________________ after the war

Time frame : _____________ to _____________

Now no longer slaves, these Blacks were called ________________________ .

no training for a trade • no education • owned no property


Freedmen's Bureau


established in _________
purpose:

  • ______________________

  • ______________________

  • ______________________

  • manage abandoned lands

passed over Johnson's veto

Civil Rights Bill (1866)
declared that Freedmen could:

  • make contracts

  • sue and be sued in court

  • aquire/hold most types of property

  • were citizens

  • could vote

  • passed over Johnson's veto

Black Codes (+'s & -'s)

declared that Freedmen could:
+ make contracts
+ sue and be sued in court
+ aquaria/hold most types of property
- could not own firearms
- could not assemble after sunset
- idle/unemployed subject to imprisonment and/or hard labor
...for up to one year!
- could only be a farmer or servant (S.C.)
- designed to keep Blacks out of cities
(note from employer needed to enter Opelousas, Louisiana!)

  • Essentially these were used to restrict the freedom of the freedmen—

  • later (1880's on) led to "Jim Crow Laws"--forced segregation given Supreme Court sanction in Plessey v. Ferguson


Reconstruction Acts:

  • divided South into__________________________________

  • states must write ___________________________________

  • states must guarantee ________________________________

  • states must ________________________________________

"Civil War Amendments" & their basic purpose:

13th ___________________________________________________________________

14th ___________________________________________________________________

15th ___________________________________________________________________

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Stated reason: __________________________________________________________

Real reason: ___________________________________________________________

Carpetbaggers ________________________________________________________________

Scalawags: ___________________________________________________________________

KKK (________________________) ______________________________________________

poll taxes _____________________________________________________________________

literacy tests ___________________________________________________________________

Reconstruction ended in ______________ because of the ____________________________

Compromise of 1877:

  1. _____________________________________________________________

  2. _____________________________________________________________

  3. _____________________________________________________________

  4. _____________________________________________________________

Tuskegee Instate was founded by _______________________________________ ;

its best-known teacher teacher was _______________________________________________ .

Sharecropping: _______________________________________________________