Presidential Reconstruction

the Freedman's Bureau

sharecropping

Black Codes

confiscated lands in 40-acre plots would be given to newly freed people.

all railway lines in the South would be destroyed and bent into "Sherman’s Neckties."

all white landowners must give up all of their land.

all enslaved people would now be freed.

when a community farms a plot of land together and shares the crops between families

when white landowners would give food from their crops to enslaved people

when a landowner would provide tools and seeds, and freedpeople and poor whites would provide the labor

when the government would provide land to newly freed people so they could farm

Everyone but high-ranking Confederate leaders and officers would be pardoned.

Each state had to provide plots of land to the Freedmen’s Bureau

Ten percent of voters in each state had to swear an Oath of Allegiance to the US.

Each state had to support emancipation

secret messages used on the Underground Railroad that were revealed after the Civil War

laws governing how white people could treat newly freed Black people

plots of land given to freed people by the government

laws passed by state legislatures to limit Black freedoms

to limit the power of northern states over southern states

Black Codes to be passed in every state

full citizenship, voting rights, and representation in government for Black people

a strong federal government

allowed all enslaved people to go free

said that Native Americans would have full rights as citizens

said that all people born in the US were citizens and were guaranteed protection under the laws

allowed all Black people to vote