Amendments
Birthright citizenship
14th Amendment
Money to pay before voting
Poll tax
Rebuilding the south after the Civil War
Reconstruction
Laws passed in Southern states to limit rights of African Americans
Black Codes
Right to vote regardless of race
15th amendment
An Exam to see if a person can read or write to vote
Literacy Test
A supreme court case that ruled segregation to be legal
Plessy v Ferguson
A laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop
Sharecropper
Separation of whites and blacks in public places
Segregation
Abolished Slavery
13th Amendment
Allowed a voter to avoid literacy test if his father or grandfather had voted on a certain date
Grandfather Clause
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
________ ______________ is a strict form of reconstruction that came from Radical Republicans
Radical Reconstruction
A secret society that terrorized African Americans and their white allies
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Which Reconstruction amendment was challenged within the past year?
14th amendment
Allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on WHICH DATE (YEAR)
Jan 1, 1867
What year did Plessy v Ferguson take place
1896
To be pardoned
Amnesty
________ _________ were enslaved people who had been freed by the war. This provided emergency relief to people displaced by the war
Freedman's Bureau
African Americans ruled not US citizens
Dred Scott v Sanford