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Lincoln offered a general amnesty, or pardon to all southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the United States
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Bill required the majority of the adult white males in a former confederate state to take an oath of allegiance. Although congress passed this bill Lincoln blocked it with a pocket veto
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Feed and clothed war refugees, and more importantly set up numerous schools for African Americans
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Formed in 1866, the KKK's goal was to drive out carpetbaggers and intimidate African American voters.
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The Black codes were passed in 1865 and 1866 and severely limited African American rights
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One of the first African American college founded.
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Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and declared that no stae could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property.
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Outlawed activities of the Klan. Over 3,000 Klan members throughout the south were arrested, but only 600 convicted.
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The Liberal Republicans tried to prevent Grant;s renomination in 1872, when that failed, they left the Republican Party and nominated their own candidate, Horace Greeley.
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The Panic of 1873 quickly spread through the finacial community. Dozens of smaller banks closed, and the stock market plummeted, thousands of businesses shut down and unemployement soared.
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In 1875 the Whiskey Ring scandal broke. A group of government officials and distillers in St. Louis, missouri cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false tax reports.
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The 1870's Reconstruction governments built a coprehensive public school system in the south, and by 1876, about 40 percent of all African American children attended school.
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The compromise of 1877 reportedly included a promise by the Republicans to pull federal troops out of the south if Hayes were elected.
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Spelman college was the first college for African American women.
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Powerful white Southerners and Northern finaciers helped pay for almost 40,000 miles of track that criss crossed the south.
