People
This group of social terrorists targeted white republican leaders
Ku Klux Klan
What does segregation mean
Separating people based on the color of their skin
What political party are most Southerners apart of during this time period
Democrat
What did the grandfather clause do?
If your grandfather could vote, you can avoid the poll tax and literacy test
What was the period after the Civil War known as?
Reconstruction
This group built schools, hospitals, and helped newly freed people across the south
Freedmen's Bureau
What was the point of reconstruciton?
To help rebuild the southern economy
Abraham Lincoln
What did Plessy v. Ferguson legalize?
Segregation
What does it mean to emancipate?
To free
These people moved from the North to South with only a bag to take advantage of the South
Carpetbaggers
What did the South want in exchange for the compromise of 1877
Federal troops removed form Florida
This person wanted 10% of southerners to sign an oath of loyalty while also forgiving any Confederate officials.
What was a poll tax
A tax that had to be paid in order to vote
What does the 13th amendment do?
Abolish slavery
This term described southern republicans who supported reconstruction
Scalawags
What did the separate car act do?
Force people of color to sit in separate sections from white people
Who was accepted as president after the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
What was a literacy test?
A reading and writing test to be eligible to vote
What does the 14th amendment do?
Give all people born or naturalized in the US citizenship and equal protections
This term is when people would borrow land to farm paying for it with a portion of the crops that were grown
Sharecropping
What was the difference between Lincoln's 10% Plan and Johnson's reconstruction plan?
Johnson wanted to forgive all confederate officials where Lincoln wanted to punish them
This group wanted to punish Confederate officials and force Southern states to ratify the 13th and 14th amendment
Radical Republicans
These were aimed to take freedoms away from black people
Black codes
What was the point of the poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause?