Post-Civil War Reconstruction: 1865-1877

1866

• Freedmen denied Reparations

• Wealth and land redistribution for freedmen was promised in the form of '40 acres and a mule.' Abraham Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, vetoed the order and forced freedmen off the land they worked

• While many free Southern Black people moved to the North to find work, others purchased land and accumulated 19 million acres by 1910