Topic 3.1 The Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime.
This government agency was created in 1865 to help freed African Americans with education, employment, and legal rights.
(100) These restrictive laws were enacted during Presidential Reconstruction to limit Black economic independence.
(What are Black Codes?)
(100) Reconstruction ended due to this political agreement, which removed federal troops from the South.
(What is the Compromise of 1877?)
(100) This phrase, referring to post-Reconstruction racial discrimination, originated from a minstrel show character.
(What is Jim Crow?)
The Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) decision was overturned by this amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Many formerly enslaved African Americans legalized their marriages by participating in this symbolic tradition.
(200) Many African Americans were forced into this exploitative labor system, which required them to give landowners a portion of their crops.
(What is sharecropping?)
(200) This massacre in 1873 involved white supremacists attacking Black voters in Louisiana.
(What is the Colfax Massacre?)
(200) This activist and journalist published "Southern Horrors" to expose lynching.
(Who is Ida B. Wells?)
This amendment granted Black men the right to vote but excluded women.
What is the 15th Amendment?
After emancipation, African Americans used this method to search for separated family members.
(300) This system allowed merchants to loan farming equipment to African Americans in exchange for a future share of their crops.
(What is the crop-lien system?)
(300) This 1896 Supreme Court case legalized segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
(What is Plessy v. Ferguson?)
(300) This post-Reconstruction period is considered the lowest point in American race relations.
(What is the Nadir?)
Nearly 2,000 African Americans were elected to public office during this period.
What is Reconstruction?
This general led the Freedmen’s Bureau and was responsible for much of its early leadership.
Who is Oliver O. Howard
(400) This practice allowed the state to lease African American prisoners to private companies for labor.
(What is convict leasing?)
(400) These methods, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, were used to prevent Black citizens from voting.
(What are disenfranchisement laws?)
(400) This Supreme Court case ruled that laws banning interracial marriage were unconstitutional.
(What is Loving v. Virginia?)
This case allowed states to implement race-neutral voter restrictions, such as literacy tests and poll taxes.
What is U.S. v. Reese?
The Freedmen’s Bureau attempted to provide land to freedpeople through this order, which was later revoked by Andrew Johnson.
What is Special Field Order No. 15?
(500) The Mississippi Black Code of 1865 required Black workers to sign yearly labor contracts or risk being fined for this crime.
(What is vagrancy?)
(500) This decision upheld racial segregation laws and was later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
(What is Plessy v. Ferguson?)
(500) These organized boycotts were used to protest racial segregation in public transportation.
(What are the trolley boycotts?)