Reconstruction
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1.
"40 acres
and a mule"
4.
A promise made to freedmen (former slaves) to
get land and an animal to help plow it. Of the
4,000,000 former slaves, fewer than 5,000 got
them. EMPTY PROMISE!
2.
3.
Gave citizenship to all men regardless of race or
former servitude (former slaves got citizenship
rights)
5.
12th
Amendment
President and Vice President are elected
together on a party ticket
-Before this amendment, the winner became
President and the runner up became Vice
President.
14th
Amendment
15th
Amendment
Gave all men the right to vote regardless of race
or former servitude (gave black men right to
vote)
6.
abolition
13th
Amendment
abolished (ended) slavery
end of slavery
7.
Abraham
Lincoln
10.
carpetbaggers
-President during the Civil War
-wanted to go easy on Southern whites
8.
Northerners who went to the South to profit
from Reconstruction
-carried inexpensive luggage made from old
carpets
-hated by many in the South because they
took advantage of Southern poverty
amendments
11.
Expense
Changes made to the constitution when most
congressmen and state lawmakers agree there
needs to be a change
9.
Andrew
Johnson
Money paid for goods and services (what you
spend)
12.
freedman
-President after Lincoln from 1865-1869
-wanted reconstruction to be easy on whites
-almost impeached (convicted of a crime)
former slave
13.
Freedman's
Bureau
17.
Pittsburgh,
PA
Federal government agency established to help
freed slaves get an education, housing, medical
care and find family members.
14.
City that was important to our country because
most U.S. steel was made there. It was
important to Reconstruction because it sold
railroad ties to the South to rebuild its' railroads.
income
18.
Political
Cartoons
Money received for goods and services (what
you make)
15.
Jim Crow
Laws
Artwork that tries to persuade the reader/viewer
to believe the way the cartoonist does
-popular during Reconstruction because printing
technology improved and they could be printed
cheaply in national newspapers.
Laws that were made to keep blacks and whites
separate (segregation)
16.
opportunity
Cost
19.
Cost of doing one activity instead of another,
what you chose NOT to do or buy (if you could
buy a CD or a video game and decide to buy the
game, the opportunity cost is the CD)
profit
Money left over after expenses are paid
Income - Expenses = Profit
-To make a profit, income must be BIGGER than
expenses
20.
Reconstruction
The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War from 1865-1877
21.
sharecropping
System of farming where people farm land they don't own and give part of the crop to the landowner. Sharecropping
was created because plantation owners needed farm workers and freedmen needed their basic needs met (food, shelter,
clothing). Sharecroppers often remained in poverty because their income was LESS THAN their expenses.
22.
Ulysses Grant
-Union General during the Civil War
-President of the U.S. from 1869-1877
-President who ended Reconstruction