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His Reconstruction Plan called for 10% of eligible voters to pledge an oath of allegiance to the United States before the state could be readmitted.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This organization provided food, clothing, housing, legal services, and education to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The term for black farmers who had to work the land and then give a share of the crop to the landowner, plus pay off any debts.
What is sharecropping?
The name for the former Confederates who came to control every southern state after 1877.
Who are the redeemers?
This amendment abolished slavery in the US.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Booker T. Washington focused on this type of education for African Americans.
What is vocational?
He argued that African Americans should work to gain economic standing and prove that they were upstanding citizens to gain equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This amendment guaranteed the rights of citizenship to anyone born in the US, including equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Black politicians in the South are responsible for this big social change during Reconstruction.
What is public education?
He argued that African Americans were citizens and must demand immediate and full equality.
Who is WEB Du Bois?
This amendment protected the right of Black men to vote in elections.
What is the 15th Amendment?
President Johnson used this presidential power to block several Reconstruction bills aimed to ensure equality.
What is the veto?
She led the campaign against lynching in the US.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
As black codes were passed in southern states, this group also began terrorizing black communities with violence and intimidation.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
The name of the school Booker T. Washington opened to help African Americans gain skills to get better jobs.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?