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Laws enforced in many states that discriminated against African Americans by segregating schools, theaters, and other public places
Jim Crow Laws
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Tests that were designed to keep African Americans from voting, a large percentage of African Americans were uneducated after the Civil War
Literacy test
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Group pardon to people for an offense against the government
Amnesty
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Liberal Republican who ran against Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election
Horace Greeley
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Withdrew federal troops from the South, Democrats promised to maintain African American rights, Hayes was president
Compromise of 1877
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Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel Tilden, Tilden won popular vote but didn't gain enough electoral votes to win election, special commission was held, Hayes won the election by one elector
Election of 1876
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Passed in 1872, pardoned most former Confederates, changed the political balance in the South by restoring full rights to people who supported the Democratic Party
Amnesty Act
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Term used to describe the new economy in the South after Reconstruction, focus of the economy was more industrial
"New South"
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Created to aid the freed slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support
Freedmen's Bureau
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