Freedman's Bureau

15th Admendment

ensures all citizens to vote regardless of race, color, or privious conditions of servituded (suffrage-right to vote)

14th Admendment

grants citizenship to all persons born in the US and guarantees them egual protectin under the law (due process)

African Americans promised land

on the coast of SC, GA, and FL. "40 acres and a mule" but land was returned to confederate soldiers

Carpetbaggers

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Freedmen's Bureau

An agency created by the goverment that helped and protected newly freed african americans find jobs, homes, education, and a better life

Sharecropping

a result of many AA not having work and working for their former owners. landowners change workers rent and crops for living expenses an using the land and tools

Civil Rights Act 1866

anyone born in the US is a citizen with equal rights-but no real penalties for not obeying

13th Admendment

bans slavery in the US and any of its territories