lives of african americans from 1865 to 1877 - improved?

• 13th amendment 


  abolition of slavery
• 14th amendment - 1868 


  equal protection under the law
• 15th amendment - 1869 


  gave african american the right to vote
• civil rights act - 1866 


  all races are full citizens of the US
• Reconstruction Acts 1867- 1868


  outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War
• enforcements + KKK acts - 1872


  aimed to protect voting rights and combat intimidation of white supremacist groups
• military occupation of the south

  former confederacy was split into 5 districts and controlled by a general to ensure safe readmittance of states
• african americans gained a voice in government


  many won elections as state legislatures in the south and two became senators from mississipi
• 22 African Americans were elected into Congress in 1870s (20 in house of reps and 2 in the Senate)
• freedmans bureau 1865 


  supported freed slaves trained them into teachers, lawyers etc 700,000 enrolled to vote
• many african americans were taught at black colleges and became teachers and lawyers - howard univeristy and hampton institute
• hampton inistitute - set up by samuel armstrong howard univeristy - set up by oliver howard
• the role of johnson 


  led to a very leneint attitude towards southern states issued pardons to rebels in the south - deeply embedded racist attitudes in the south
• tuskegee institute - 1881


  set up by booker. T . washington