HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lithography, Reconstruction Era, Sharecropping
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Thirteenth amendment abolished slavery within the us in all states. Freedmen"s bureau an institution that helped freed slaves and white refugees find work, housing and an education. Sharecropping system of agriculture where landowners allowed a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of the land. Fourteenth amendment us citizens have equal rights under the law. Impeachment put on trial while in office; decides whether or not a president will be removed from office. Congressional reconstruction congress was pushing reconstruction. Fifteenth amendment all men had the right to vote. Carpetbaggers a northerner moving to the south after the freeing of the slaves, to run for office. Elected by gaining black votes because they were more educated. What is its significance today: reconstruction is judged to have ended in 1877. A lithograph that was marketed to freed slaves after the civil war.
