Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery.
The 13th amendment
This man of honor was the leader of the Union throughout the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
After the Civil War, what needed to be reconstructed?
The United States.
What word means to keep people separated?
Segregation
Who, after three of their friends were lynched, decided to step out against the racial violence in the South?
Ida B. Wells
What is an amendment?
A change or addition to the U.S. Constitution.
Which man of honor was a Union military leader that would later go on to become President of the United States?
Ulysses S. Grant
What was kept in the South after the Civil War to help protect the newly freed slaves?
The Union Troops
Originally, what was Jim Crow?
A performance meant to create a stereotype.
Who thought it best to accept social segregation, and learn to thrive in spite of it?
Which amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote?
The 15th amendment
This man of honor led the Confederate military during the Civil War, and surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.
Robert E. Lee
This organization was created in 1865 to help the newly freed slaves get the things they needed.
The Freedmen's Bureau
What do we call the illegal killing of people by gangs of violent vigilantes?
Lynching
Who believed in creating the Talented Tenth?
W.E.B. DuBois
Which amendment granted all people born in the United States citizenship?
The 14th amendment
This man of honor led the Union throughout the Civil War and thought that preserving the Union was more important than punishing the south.
Abraham Lincoln
Which U.S. President ended reconstruction and northern protection with the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes
What was the worst hate group to emerge in the South after the Civil War?
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What was it called when African Americans were leaving the South to escape persecution and search for a better life in the North and Midwest.
The Great Migration
What was created across the southern states to restrict African Americans and other minorities from exercising their new rights?
The Black Codes
This man of honor served in the Civil War and went on to become the first African American Senator in the United States.
Hiram Revels
Northerners who came South to help the Newly freed slaves were known as what?
Carpetbaggers
What organization was created by Ida B. Wells, W.E>B. DuBois, and Mary White Ovington to fight against the injustices of the Jim Crow Era against minorities?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
This term means to sign or give formal consent, to make it valid?
Ratify