Southern laws during reconstruction
A southern law requiring African Americans to pay a fee in order to vote
What were Poll Taxes?
The nickname that Southerns gave to fellow Southerns who were pro-Union.
What was Scalawags?
This Amendment banned slavery in the United States.
What was the 13th?
The 10 year period following the Civil War in the south.
What was Reconstruction?
His plan was called the Ten Percent Plan.
Who was Lincoln?
This election resulted with the end of Reconstruction.
What was the election of 1876?
Laws that created separate facilities based on race.
What were Jim Crow laws?
A term used for Northerners who traveled to the South for political and economic gain following the end of the Civil War.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
These three amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
The 10 southern states that did not comply with the Radical Republicans plan for being readmitted to the Union were divided into ____ military districts.
What is 5?
His plan allowed former Confederate military and political leaders to ask for amnesty.
Who was Johnson?
He was the first African American senator:
Hiram Revels
Southern states adopted these codes as a means of restricting the freedmen from exercising their full citizenship rights.
What were the Black Codes?
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation and violence in an attempt to prevent African Americans from accessing their Constitutional rights.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The term used to describe the newly freed African American
What was the Freedmen?
This group was accused of corruption due to their desire to unify the Union.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
What is granting a pardon or forgiveness for crimes?
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
After Lincoln was assassinated, this man became president.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This amendment granted all persons born in the U.S. or naturalized in the U.S. full citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A way of denying voting based on if someone could read:
What are literacy tests?
The Compromise of 1877 allowed this man to become President:
Rutherford B. Hayes
What did Hayes promise to do in order to win the election?
What is remove federal troops from the South?
The clause that made it so white southerners did not have to complete a literacy test to vote.
What was the grandfather clause?
He encouraged his fellow Southerns to reunite with the North at the end of the Civil War? He was the general of the Confederacy.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This act was an attempt by the federal government to enforce African American Constitutional rights in the South.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
The political party that wanted to punish the southern confederate states following the Civil War.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This plan for Reconstruction required states to ratify the 14th Amendment.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
In "We Wear The Mask" what is meant by the imagery?
What is *answers may vary and are up to Miss Sendek's discretion on if they are correct*