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the economy was utterly devastated |
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blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity |
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The white South viewed the Freedman's Bureau as |
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a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance |
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In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised |
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rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union |
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The main purpose of the Black Codes was to |
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ensure a stable and subservient labor supply |
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The Fourteenth Amendment gauranteed |
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citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves |
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Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when |
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the last federal troops were removed in 1877 |
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Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to |
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educate them on their civil rights |
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A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was |
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white resentment of the ability and success of black legislators |
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In 1867 Secretary of State Seward achieved the Johnson administration's greates success in foreign relations when he |
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purchased Alaska from Russia |
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