Vocabulary
To set someone free or liberate
What is Emancipation?
The separation of people based on their race.
What is segregation?
Federal government used them to protect black voters from intimidation and violence.
What is the military?
The group that offered support to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A person who may be homeless or doesn't have a consistent job.
What is a vagrant?
Laws passed in many Southern states after the Civil War to restrict freedom from formerly enslaved African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote (women, both black and white would have to wait another 62 years!).
What is the 15th Amendment?
Reconstruction started to fail once this group left the South.
What are federal troops?
This movement happened when freedpeople decided to leave the South.
What is The Great Migration.
The act of killing, hanging, or burning that happened at the hands of Southern Whites.
What is lynching?
Freedpeople were expected to do this in the presence of White Southerners as a show of respect.
What is tip your hat or get off the sidewalk?
The two sides that fought in the Civil War.
What is the North & South?
Became the 1st black senator in the state of Missippi.
Who is Hiram Revels?
A system where a landowner provides a tenant a place to stay, land, seeds and tools.
What is sharecropping?
Laws that legally separated or segregated blacks and whites. These laws created separate facilities such as restrooms, schools, hospitals, water fountains, etc. for each race.
What are "Jim Crow" Laws?
All freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes in this State over the age of eighteen years found on the second Monday in January, 1866, or thereafter, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together… shall be deemed vagrants.”
What is Vagrancy laws?
This Act was passed by Congress to deal with intimidation, threats, and violence towards black voters.
What is the Enforcement Acts?
This president gets credit for freeing the slaves.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A derogatory term used for a Northerner or an outsider who moves to help themselves financially.
What is carpetbagger?
A secret group of white supremacists who terrorized southern Blacks in order to prevent them from exercising their rights (especially their right to vote).
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Ida B. Wells tried to get one passed, and it finally happened in 2022.
What is an anti-lynching law?
What is the Panic of 1873?
These two factors were involved in when people migrate to different places
What is "push" and "pull"?