His reconstruction policies were designed to unite North and South through government programs supported by federal troops. However his death in 1865 prevented them from being carrying out until years later.
Who was Abraham Lincoln
100
Laws that sought to re-instute the practice of slavery in everything but name.
What are black codes
100
A white supremacist organization established in 1865 with the goal of terrorizing African Americans in the south.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan
100
It ended slavery in the United States in all states forever.
What is the 13th Ammendment.
100
A term that refers to African-Americans freed from slavery in the mid and late 19th century.
What is a Freedmen
200
His southern leaning led him to prematurely end reconstruction in the south when he took over the presidency in 1865.
Who was president Andrew Johnson
200
A practice used to terrorize African-Americans, became very common in the south after the Civil War, causing more deaths to free African-Americans than had been inflicted upon them in slavery.
What is Lynching
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! A period that lasted from 1865 – 1876 that saw the creation of a radically discrimatory southern United States.
What is Reconstruction
200
All those whose father’s or forefather’s served under the Confederacy during the Civil War shall be exempt from voting restrictions.
What is a Grandfather Clause
200
A tax placed on the right to vote designed to prevent African-Americans from participating in the political process.
What is a Poll Tax
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! His plan to re-ignite the Confederate struggle failed, but he did become the first presidential assassin in U.S. History.
Who was John Wilkes Booth.
300
A type of farming practiced in the south designed to keep African-Americans in abject poverty with no hope of advancement.
What is Share Cropping
300
A southerner who broke from white southern norms by advocating for reconstruction policies in the south.
What is a Scalawag
300
Guaranteed the right to citizenship of all natural born Americans regardless of race or color.
What is the 14th Amendment
300
A test that required African-Americans to prove a high level of reading in order to vote.
What is a Literacy Test
400
He was a general for the Union in the Civil War and later served as the Republican President during the radical reconstruction period of the 1870s.
Who was Ulyssess S. Grant
400
A social policy that occurred only after the civil war but lasted well into the 1960s in most southern states.
What is Segregation
400
In order to make military occupation and implementation of reconstruction easier southern states were divided into these.
What is a Military District
400
Guaranteed the right of all male citizens to vote regardless of race or color.
What is the 15th Amendment
400
This landmark Supreme Court case in 1896 supported the practice of segregation as legal under the constitution of the United States and was not overturned for over half a century.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson
500
In 1865 he gave a speech calling for the immediate political and social equality of African Americans in the south.
Who was Frederick Douglass
500
A political organization established to help African-Americans integrate themselves into a free society.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
500
A northerner who moved south after the war, either as a missionary, educator, government official, or entrepreneur.
What is a Carpet Bagger
500
A congressional act of 1864 that was not put into place right away but was a preview of what radical reconstruction policies would look like.
What is the Wade Davis Bill
500
These laws were common in southern states and made segregation required under law. It also became a common term used to refer to the discrimination policies of the Southern United States.