to give women the right to vote

to allow the Confederate States to re-enter the Union

to give African Americans the right to vote

to abolish slavery

to give African Americans the right to vot

to establish a federal income tax

to give women the right to vote

to officially end the "Reconstruction Era"

Radical Democrats

Moderate Republicans

Radical Republicans

Moderate Democrats

to give African Americans the right to vote

to give all American citizens equal protection under the law

to abolish slavery

to officially terminate the government of the Confederate States of America

prevent the African American population from voting in federal elections.

establish the "sharecropping" system to make sure that white farmers continued to employ African Americans.

provide newly freed slaves with food, shelter, work, and education.

to enforce "Black Codes," or laws that treated African Americans as second-class citizens

John Wilkes Booth

Edwin Stanton

Thaddeus Stevens

Samual Tilden

were too focused on helping the freed African slaves, but not on helping the poor, white farmers.

were too strict to allow the Union to ever be reunited as it was prior to the Civil War.

were too lenient on the Southern states that had rebelled against the Union.

were created too quickly without consulting the former leaders of the Confederate states.

Northern citizens who moved south to take advantage of the disorder and destruction

Southern Republicans who were sympathetic to the Northern politicians in the South.

Newly freed slaves who were competing for jobs with the poor, white population.

Veterans of the Civil War who refused to return to civilian life in the South.

Sons of the Confederacy

Neo-Nazis

Ku Klux Klan

Black Separatists

Crops (such as cotton and tobacco) were more valuable than money.

Sharecroppers were treated better than paid employees

People agreed to be sharecroppers in order to avoid having to work in the factories.

There were so few paying jobs for African Americans that they were willing to accept any kind of work they could find.