HIST 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Civil Rights Act Of 1866, Morant Bay Rebellion, John Wilkes Booth
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Black codes (1865-1866): laws enacted by southern state legislatures after the civil war. Granted limited rights to former slaves (right to marry, own land, participate in the judicial process) Singled out african americans under the law; imposed severe restraints on their occupations, mobility, and rights as parents. Crop lien: credit system widely used by southern farmers (1860s-1920s); way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests. Freedmen"s bureau: aka bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned land. Established within the army to make decisions about labor disputes in the summer and fall of 1865. Homestead act (1862): congressional act that allowed families to claim 160 acres of land if they improved it over five years of residents. Opened the western united states to settlement. Knights of labor: first national labor union; founded in baltimore in 1869. Aimed to organize all laboring people into a large, national union.
