President Lincoln is assassinated - Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President, 13th Amendment to the Constitution - Abolishes Slavery, Freedmmen's Bureau - established to help former slaves transition to freedom, Civil Rights Act of 1866 - Grants Citizenship to African Americans, Ku Klux Klan - founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest, is a white supremacist group that terrorized African Americans, Radical Republicans - Group that controls Congress and pushes for more accressive Reconstruction policies, the 14th Amendment - guarantees citizenship and equal protection under the law, Vice President Andrew Johnson - Impeached by House of Represnetative but not convicted by the Senate, Public Schools - Republicans believed education could aid social progress in the South. They established public school systems., Segregated Schools - Tennessee legislature passed an act to serve Black and White students but they were in separate Black and White schools, Tenant Farmers - Worked on land owned by others. often owned animals equipment and supplies and received claose to 3/4 of the harvest to sell., Sharecroppers - Worked on land owned by others. They owned nothing, they just contributed their labor on the land. They received 1/2 of the crop. Then landowners deducted for rent and supplies, the share croppers received very little money , Carpetbaggers - Northerners who tried to benefit financially from the devastation in the south. They often carried luggage made of carpet like material, Scalawags. - Southerners who worked with the carpetbaggers to take financial advantage of other Southerners, Disenfranchise - Ex-confederates Republicans were taking away their rights especially their right to vote, 15th amendment to the US Constitution - Poll taxes and literacy tests used to disenfranchise African Americans from voting., Compromise of 1877 - If Republicans would agree to the end of military occupation of the South, Democrats would accept Rutherfoud hayes as president,

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