Designed to aid formerly enslaved people and poor white people in the Souther states after the Civil War

Help distribute land in the South to newly freed African Americans

Establish schools for African Americans in the South

Black codes targeted newly freed African Americans in order to maintain a labor force similar to slavery

Required African Americans to sign labor contracts or risk being arrested and forced into unpaid labor

Because of Black codes Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866

Abolish slavery in the United States

The Emancipation Proclamation only focused on freeing slaves in Confederate territoires, but the 13th amendment made it nationwide

Although it abolished slavery forced labor can be used as a type of punishment which southern states abused

A group made of former Confederate soldiers

Opposed Reconstruction and terrorized newly freed African Americans

Used terror, intimidation, and violence to maintain white supremacy

First Federal law to define citizenship

Guaranteed Equal Rights

A big push for Reconstruction

Lasted for 3 days which killed at least 46 African Americans with many injured also

Showed how much the South opposed equal rights for free African Americans

Rioters destroyed many Black owned property like homes, churches, schools, and businesses

Divided the South in 5 military districts which each district was governed by a Union general

Mandated that Southern states had to create new constituions that guaranteed Black men the right to vote

Impeachment of president Andrew Jackson

Happened while Ulysses Grant was president

Did not get ratified

One of few early examples of the U.S. spreading its territory

Gave citizenship to all natural born, and naturalized people in the U.S. which also included formerly enslaved people

States that no states can deny people's life, liberty, and property without due process of law

Secured rights for newly freed African Americans

Required Souther states to rewrite their constitutions in order to rejoin the Union

Freedmen were able to be included as delegates in state constitutional conventions

A big political empowerment for Black Americans

Gave African American men the right to vote

In order to fight against this Southern states set up traps, so African American's wouldn't be able to vote

Although it gave African American men the right to vote it never mentioned women not even white women the right to vote

Led by the KKK

At least 60 Black men killed

This showed the failure of local and state governments on how they don't protect African Americans enough in the South

Aimed at Black Voters in order for white democrats in Mississippi to regain political control

Used tactics like intimidation and violence to scare Black voters and republican supporters

This was successful for the South in fighting against Reconstruction

Ended Reconstruction

Rise of Jim Crow Laws in the South

Informal agreement which allowed Hayes to become president in exchange made promises to Southern democrates