Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
Southern Reconstruction
End of Reconstruction
Reconstruction Reversed
100
This is the term used to describe the period of time in which Southern states were rebuilt and accepted back into the Union.
What is reconstruction?
100
This political party held power during Congressional Reconstruction.
What is the Republican Party?
100
The name given to Northerners who moved to the South after the war?
Who are carpetbaggers?
100
This all-white, secret society used terror methods to threaten black voters and used extreme forms of violence, even murder, to exercise control.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
100
After Reconstruction, southerners had to pay for this luxury, which had previously been public, excluding many African Americans from accessing it.
What is education?
200
After Pres. Lincoln was assassinated, this man had the first opportunity to complete Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
This change to the Constitution granted citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. and guaranteed that all citizens would receive equal protection of the law. (The equal rights amendment)
What is the fourteenth (14th) amendment?
200
The name given to white Southerners who voted Republican. They were seen as traitors by Southern Democrats.
Who are scalawags?
200
African Americans felt this way at the end of reconstruction.
What is bad, horrible, despair, hopeless, angry, strife, like property again, etc?
200
These laws enforced segregation of blacks and whites in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300
This change to the Constitution in 1865 abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the thirteenth (13th) amendment?
300
This is what happened to President Andrew Johnson after he violated the Office of Tenure Act.
What is impeached?
300
President Grant won the presidency with the help of half a million votes from this group.
Who are black voters?
300

This allowed former Confederates to vote again if they expressed forgiveness for their previous deeds.

What is the Amnesty or Pardon?

300

The violence acts against blacks that involved unlawful hangings

What is Lynching?

400
These laws were passed in the South during 1855-1856 to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What are black codes?
400
This system of farming allowed landowners to rent out plots of their land to farmers who often went into debt with the landowner.
What is sharecropping?
400
It said that a citizen's right to vote "shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It granted every male citizen the right to vote, regardless of race.
What is the fifteenth (15th) amendment?
400

Three laws passed by Congress in 1875 to fight against unequal pay and poor housing for African Americans.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

400

The strategy to copy the industry of the north

What is the New South?

500
This agency was established by Congress to help protect newly freed black Americans.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
This act divided the Southern states into districts to be governed by federal troops.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
500
Many people from this group were elected to state governments in the South as a result of the 15th amendment.
Who are African Americans?
500

What led to President Hayes being elected and federal troops being removed from the Southern states?

What is the Compromise of 1877? Or Special Commission?

500

Farming style that created a cycle of debt

Sharecropping

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