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Port Royal Experiment
In the spring of 1862, the government hired former slaves to work in the cotton fields, established schools and hospitals, and set aside land for people to purchase at a fair price. -
Sharecropping
they paid their landlord with the crops they grew and were often trapped in a never ending cycle of debt because they were unable to buy their own land and high interest payments, the consequences affected the south farmers for generations to come. they rented land they use to work on as slaves and even landless white citizens were sharecropping as well. indivdual families were able to sign contracts with landowners to work on specific plots of land. -
Freedmen's Bureau
This agency was only suppose to last one year after the war ended. They provided food, clothes, medical supplies to poor southerners, help negotiate employment contracts, and also helped establish schools. -
Massacare of New Orleans
The governor J. Madison Wells , had a convention thinking the blacks and whites would have a compromise. mayor John Monroe did not want the convention to happen, to stop it he used the city police chief and also heavily armed forces. This caused a fight to break out with the police over 100 people were killed or severely injured. -
Reconstruction Acts
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Election of 1868
Black men in the South could finally vote for president . Grant won by a landslide of 214 to 80 thanks to the 400,000 black men who voted for him. white southerners were not happy about the vote, but it was a joyous occasion for black southerners, they were finally able to be full citizens -
The south's first black universities
Fisk, Hampton, and Tougaloo universities were the first black universities in the south. They were founded by the Northern Aid societies. 256,834 black students were enrolled. -
Rutherford B. Hayes swearing in
Was a private ceremony at the white house, he told his advisers that in his policy, the plan was leave the South alone. the reconstruction era was over. -
First U.S Postal Service Special Delivery
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AT&T was incorporated
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Bryn-Mawr College for Women
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Sherman Silver Purchasing Act
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The Gold Standard Act
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Carneige Institute of Technology
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FDIC
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The Eight Year Study
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Social Security Act
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The Banking Act of 1935
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the Eight-year study ends
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Attack on Peal Harbor
