People
Ways that African Americans were affected by Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws
Andrew Johnson
Created to establish segregation between races following the end of Reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws
Reuniting the nation and rebuilding the South.
Reconstruction
Northerners who moved South during the Reconstruction Era.
Carpetbaggers
This amendment outlawed slavery.
13th Amendment
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
A social group that created widespread fear across the South.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
The name of the Reconstruction Plan was designed to show mercy toward the South and wait to provide the freedmen with voting rights.
Presidential Plan
Who was impeached for opposing Congress during Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
What Act weakened the effect of the Black Codes by requiring all states to uphold equal protection under the 14th Amendment, particularly by enabling Black men to vote?
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
What organization was established to help African Americans transition from slavery?
Freedman's Bureau
The name of the exam was given to freedmen who attempted to vote in the South during the Reconstruction Era. It was designed to be very difficult to pass.
Literacy Test
Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew.
Sharecropping
Southerners who supported the federal government during the Reconstruction Era.
Scalawags
What amendment ensured voting rights for African American men?
15th Amendment
What were the long-term effects of Reconstruction on African Americans?
Racism
Ways that African Americans were affected by Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws.
What event marked the end of Reconstruction?
Withdrawal of federal troops from the South
What act aimed to protect the rights of African Americans in 1866?
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The names of members of Congress during the Reconstruction Era who wished to provide voting rights to the freedmen.
Radical Republicans
The name of the additional charge on the freedmen who attempted to vote during the Reconstruction Era. It was designed to be very difficult to afford.
Poll Tax
Abraham Lincoln gave this speech in 1863, sending a message to foreign nations and the Southern States that slavery would be abolished in the Confederacy.
Emancipation Proclamation
The name of the Reconstruction Plan was designed to show no mercy to the South and provide the freedmen with voting rights.
Congressional Plan
Re-defined citizenship in the United States.
14th Amendment