The Culture of Racism
The Postwar South
Andrew Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction
Black Codes
100

These musicals depicted African American slaves as happy, carefree, and simple-minded.

minstrel shows

100

This group was established to terrorize former slaves in the South.

Ku Klux Klan

100

Johnson was born in this state.

North Carolina


100

Under Johnson's plan, the vast majority of southerners could receive a pardon and regain their citizenship by doing this.

saying an oath of allegiance

100

One black code in South Carolina prohibited blacks from doing any job other than this.

farming

200

In a biblical story used to justify racism, this person cursed his son, Ham, to a life of slavery and cast him out of his lands.

Noah

200

After the Civil War the value of this decreased by about 70%.

farm land

200

This was Andrew Johnson’s original career.

tailor

200

Southern state had to include certain provisions in their constitutions, including this one which dealt with the cause of the Civil War.

abolish slavery

200

This type of black code limited when blacks could leave their homes and gather publicly.

curfews

300

The theory stated that the different races of humans were actually different species.

polygenism

300

Southern plantation owners lost about $3 billion in this type of property because of the war.

slaves

300

Andrew Johnson succeeded this president.

Abraham Lincoln

300

Once a southern state had written a constitution with all of the required provisions, the state could then hold these.

elections for state and federal offices

300

One type of black code was a vagrancy law, which penalized blacks for not having one of these.

a job
400

This professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania was famous for his research that said that larger brains equaled greater intelligence.

Samuel George Morton

400

After the Civil War, former slaves established these institutions.

schools, churches, clubs, and aid societies

400

Johnson was a member of this political party.

Democrat

400

All southerners who swore allegiance to the union were pardoned except these people, who had to appeal to Andrew Johnson personally.

former confederate leaders

400

Nearly all southern states had enacted black codes by this year.

1866

500

This Harvard professor of biology concluded that mixed-race humans were morally and intellectually inferior to pure-race humans.

Louis Agassiz

500

This was the percentage of southern males who were killed during the Civil War.


20% or 1 out of 5


500

Andrew Johnson was a governor of this state.


Tennessee


500

In order to be able to accepted back into the union, southern states had to hold one of these meetings.

constitutional convention

500

These two states were the first to enact black codes.

Mississippi and South Carolina

600

Most northern states had outlawed slavery by this decade.

1820s

600

Immediately after the Civil War, blacks were often able to own this commodity, that they were unable to do during slavery.

land

600

This was the first name of Andrew Johnson's wife.

Eliza

600

Andrew Johnson put his Reconstruction plan in place in this year.

1865

600

These measures were designed to punish anyone who offered higher wages to a black laborer already under contract.

anti-enticement measures

700

This church justified enslavement of non-white people because they were non-Christian.

Roman Catholic Church

700

Political violence was common in the South between these two political parties.

Republicans and Democrats

700

Andrew Johnson became president in this year.

8165

700

The leniency of Johnson's plan on the South directly resulted in the passage of these restrictive laws in southern states.

black codes

700

Black codes did not restrict blacks from activity that was illegal under the system of slavery.

marriage, land ownership

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