RECONSTRUCTION

FREEDMEN

• A person who has been freed from slavery.
• Life was not easy for freedmen.

FREEDMENS BUREAU

• Freedmen and abandoned lands.
• Lots of people had to go to the freed men's bureau because they needed
• Food shelter and medicine.

14TH AMENDMENT

• national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
• The constitution was just a bunch of amendments.

15TH AMENDMENT

• prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “ of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
• The 15th amendment protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders.

KU KLUX KLAN

• a secret organization inspired by the former, founded in 1915 and active in the southern
• And in some parts of the US directed against blacks Catholics and Jews .

MARCH 8, 1870

• A council meeting.
• discussion took place on the importance of flax culture,

GOVERNOR EDMUND DAVIS

• an American lawyer, soldier, and politician.
• Governor Edmund was a general in the union army.