The Reconstruction Quizlet

Under President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction, this group seized power in the southern state governments

All-white provisional governers

The mystery document was an example of _____________

Black Codes

The national government was the _______ of freedom according to Charles Sumner

Custodian

What the 14th Amendment did

Granted citizenship to all people born in the US as well as equal protection of the laws

Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. After, Congress ________ this veto

Overrode

The key to freedom for most formers slaves

Ownership of land

Southern Democrats who were able to take back control from the Republican governments of the southern states became known as ____________

Redeemers

The government established this to give freed slaves a fair economic start

The Freedmen's Bureau

Won the presidential election of 1868

Ulysses S. Grant

By the Great Depression, most sharecroppers were __________

White