Reconstruction and the Presidents
African Americans during Reconstruction
African Americans after Reconstruction
The End of Reconstruction
Vocabulary
100
This was Lincoln's goal after the Civil War.
What is to bring the country back together?
100
This gave newly freed slaves and poor whites benefits including medical care, jobs, and an education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
This law required African Americans to pay a fee before voting.
What is the poll tax?
100

These laws created military rule in the South.

What are the Military Reconstruction Acts?

100

This amendment abolished slavery.

13th Amendment

200
This was the process of bringing the southern states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
200

These laws limited the freedoms and rights of African Americans, including the right to work anywhere except on a plantation.

What are the Black Codes?

200

If your grandfather was a slave before January 1, 1867, you couldn't vote, according to this law.

What is the grandfather clause?

200
These people were northern Republicans that moved south to profit from Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
200

This is the name for individuals freed from slavery.

Freedmen

300
According to Lincoln's plan, this percentage of people in a state had to swear loyalty to the Union.
What is 10%?
300
This "Civil War" amendment gave all African Americans United States citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
This Supreme Court decision created the term "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
These southern Republicans supported the Union during the Civil War.
What are scalawags?
300

This holiday celebrates June 19, 1865, the day slavery was abolished.

Juneteenth
400
The Wade Davis Bill required this amount of people in a southern state to swear their loyalty to the United States in order to re-enter the Union.
What is over 50%?
400
The goals of this group included barring African Americans from voting and creating a whites only society.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
This was the separation of different races in public places.
What is segregation?
400

*Daily Double* This president, elected in 1876, whose election basically ended Reconstruction.

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?

400

This political group demanded civil rights for former slaves.

Radical Republicans

500

Congress did this to Andrew Johnson after he fired his Secretary of War.

What is impeach?

500
The Fifteenth Amendment made it illegal to ban a person from voting based on this.
What is skin color?
500
These people were given tools and land in exchange for a share of the harvest, which sometimes wasn't much.
What are sharecroppers?
500
This ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500

These laws established racial segregation.  They were in place in many areas of the US until the 1960's.

Jim Crow Laws

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