Foundations
What are civil rights?
Equal rights for all individuals.
This was the period when the U.S. Army was stationed in the South for Reconstruction.
What is one of the amendments in the Civil Rights?
13th , 14th, or 15th
What was the compromise of 1877
It ended Reconstruction
16th president of the United States; started the reconstruction era by ending the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
What were the main functions of the black codes?
Restrictive laws that were set in place for African Americans.
What were the Reconstruction Acts?
Four landmark U.S. federal laws that established martial law in the Southern states following the Civil War
Which amendment prohibited the denial of vioting rights based on race,and color? And made voting rights for all men.
15th Amendment
what was a Scalawag
Southern supporters of Reconstruction
A prominent abolitionist who continued to fighting for voting rights and equality during the era.
Frederick Douglass
What were freedmen?
Formerly enslaved individuals.
Who were Radical Rebublicans?
radical republicans were a loud minority of of the republican party. demanding abnodation of slavery immediately.
Which amendment officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States?
13th Amendment
what were Carpetbaggers
Northerners who went South
This person is the president after Lincoln. His lenient policies allowed for Southern "Black Codes" and who opposed Radical Republicans.
Andrew Johnson
What did the Freedmen's Bureau primarily do?
Act as an aid organization.
This was the law that divided the South into military-controlled regions after the Civil War?
Reconstruction Acts
The Equal Protection Clause, which prevents state governments from denying any person equal protection under the law, is found in which amendment?
14th Amendment
what was the Ku Klux Klan
Violent group against freedmen
Once a famous Union civil war general, he later became president (1869–1877). He supported radical reconstruction and worked to protect African American rights against the KKK.
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the primary focus of reconstruction?
Rebuilding the South.
What is reconstruction under military district rule?
The system required the South to place their governments under federal military supervision.
What is sufferage?
ITS THE RIGHT TO VOTE
what were the Jim Crow Laws
laws that legalized segregation
His disputed election and subsequent inauguration in 1877 marked the end of Reconstruction.
Rutherford B. Hayes