Vocabulary
This term indicates a withdrawal from the United States
What is a secession?
This person's plan focused on at least 10% of voters in an area making an oath of loyalty.
Who is Lincoln?
The percentage of industrialization owned by the South
What is 15%
This policy made African Americans pay a tax to be able to vote
What is the Poll Tax
This amendment outlawed slavery before states could rejoin the Union.
What is the 13th amendment?
These laws passed in the South after the Civil War were aimed at controlling freed men and women and allowing plantation owners to take advantage of African American workers
What are Black Codes?
This plan banned former Confederates from holding office and wanted 50% of each state's population to swear an oath of loyalty.
What is the Radical Republican plan?
The reason why farmers had increasing debt.
What is they had to take out loans to pay for items?
This policy made African Americans need to read and write at a specific level to be able to vote
What are Literacy Tests
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This term is used to define illegal or dishonest actions.
What is corruption?
This person's plan opposed equal rights for African Americans.
Who is Johnson?
This indicated that the Southern economy was getting back to normal.
What are railways are built to pre-war levels?
The policy that had African Americans rent property from a former slave owner in exchange for most of the African Americans crops
What is Sharecropping
This amendment states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This is money paid in order to be allowed to vote.
What is a poll tax?
How many plans required slavery to be outlawed before states could rejoin the Union?
All 3
The company that monopolized the use of tobacco.
What is the American Tobacco Company?
The general term given to laws that tried to limit the freedom of African Americans during Reconstruction up until the 1970s
What are Jim Crow Laws
This system allows a farmer to work the land for the owner and receive a portion of the harvest.
What is sharecropping?
This organization was created in order to help African Americans adjust to life after slavery.
The reason that the South is forced to industrialize.
What is the overreliance on profit from the cotton industry to be able to buy manufactured goods?
Some activities that the K.K.K. did to intimidate African Americans
What are lynching parties, burning down African American churches, and not be able to play games with whites in certain places