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

download (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