Reconstruction 3
Lincoln
Jobs
Immigration
Sharecropping
16th president
Created the Freedmen's Bureau
Guy in the top hat (most important fact)
Abolished slavery and gave blacks freedom
Freedman's Bureau
Transcontinental Railroad
There was a competition to reach midpoint
Irish came East to West
Chinese came West to East
Helped make the KKK
Whites became jealous, made it so that blacks can not vote without a literacy test. They can do that because of the deal they made with Hayes
Gave Black people many benefits to jump start their life
Jobs
Free healthcare
Free education
Land
People give you land and a place to farm, then when you sell, you give that person a percentage of your money
Loophole around slavery
Whites hated it
Blacks and Whites became sharecroppers
(Unfortunately, I could not find one with him in his top hat 😢 )
Wanted to rebuild the U.S.
Because of him, there was equality among races
Both came to U.S.
Irish
Chinese