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Reconstruction Terms
Reconstruction Events
Reconstruction Ends
Jim Crow I
Jim Crow II
100
Lincoln and Congress pass this Amendment which ends slavery in all states.
What was the 13th Amendment?
100
These Republicans, most of them former abolitionists who wanted to punish the south, took over Reconstruction by overriding Johnson's vetoes . . . they even impeached him to try to get him out of office.
Who were the radical republlicans?
100
These were northerners who came south to make a fortune by taking advantage of the south's very depressed economy.
Who were carpetbaggers?
100
Before he died, Lincoln vetoed this bill which would have made 50% of southerners to take an oath to the Union.
What was the Wade Davis Bill?
Remember, Lincoln did not want to punish the southern states.
100
This 1872 act allowed most confederate veterans to run for political office.
What was the Amnesty Act of 1872?
100
Racism and the lack of the south's emphasis on this kept the promise of the "New South" (becoming as industrial and self sufficient as the north) from becoming a reality
What was an emphasis on public education?
100
Literacy test and these taxes kept African Americans from voting.
What were poll taxes?
200
Lincoln and Congress create this organization that was charge with assisting the newly freed slaves (jobs, schooling, understanding their rights, reuniting families).
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
To protect the newly freed slaves, they sent Union troops back into the southern states with this law.
What was the Military Reconstruction Act?
200
These were Southerners who aided the republicans or newly freed slaves.
Who were scalawags?
200
This man almost almost took over the gold market, with help from the president's brother in law.
Who was Jay Gould?
200
He became president thanks to the Compromise of 1877
Who was Rutherford B Hayes?
200
In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 the Supreme Court ruled thar private individuals and businesses could ban customers based on this.
What is race?
200
His Atlanta Compromise suggested economic cooperation, with African Americans focusing more on having a reliable income, than worrying about their rights.
Who was Booker T Washington?
300
After Lincoln is assassinated, this southerner becomes president.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
300
They passed this amendment, which gave the newly freed slave citizenship and equal protection (if only for a little while)
What was the 14th Amendment?
300
Many African Americans who stayed in the south became these, giving up half their crops to the owners of the land they rented, living in poverty for generations.
Who were sharecroppers?
300
These Acts were put in place to bring an end to the power of the KKK . . . and it worked . . . for a little while.
What were the Force Acts?
300
Hayes became president only because he promised to do this to southern states
What was remove federal or union troops?
300
While many southerners became dependent on cotton, this man showed the south that there were other crops to be farmed such as soybeans, yams and peanuts.
Who was George Washington Carver?
300
He believed that education without equality was meaningless and he wanted African Americans to go to college to help improve their chances at equality.
Who was WEB DuBois?
400
In November, these laws began to be passed in southern states, limited the freedoms of freed African Americans.
What were "Black Codes"?
400
This former Union general became president, but he pretty much had to do whatever the Radical Republicans told him to do.
Who was Ulysses S Grant?
400
Radical Republicans used this Act, which said president's could not fire their political officials, to try to remove Andrew Johnson from office.
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
Johnson was impeach, but found not guilty by one vote.
400
Political Machines and the "bosses" who ran them became very powerful during and after the Civil War, stealing tax payer money. The most famous boss was this man, from the Tammany Hall Ring.
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
400
The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction, but it also began this time in the south.
What was Jim Crow?
400
This Supreme Court case enshrined Jim Crow laws throughout the south.
What was Plessy V Ferguson, 1896
400
Ida B Wells and this man helped to co-found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to fight for equality.
Who was WEB DuBois?
500
In December of 1865 this terrorist organization was formed in Tennessee.
What was the KKK?
500
With this amendment, African American men could now vote.
What was the 15th Amendment?
500
These were southerners who won back state political offices near the end and after Reconstruction. Their goal was state's rights and white supremacy.
Who were the "redeemers"?
500
The Credit Mobilier Affair and this scandal, where the liquor industry and federal agents defrauded millions from taxes payers
What was the Whiskey Ring?
500
This cartoonists brought down "Boss" Tweed, but in this picture he is highlighting the injustice of Jim Crow.
Who was Thomas Nast?
500
She was the anti-lynching crusader.
Who was Ida B Wells?
500
He founded the Tuskegee Institute, helping thousands of African American to learn a skill or trade?
Who was Booker T Washington?