Amendments & Laws
Amendment that ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
President who wanted to reunite the country after the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Southern cities and railroads were left in this condition after the war.
What is destroyed / in ruins?
Northerners who moved South.
What are carpetbaggers?
Tests that required people to read and write before voting.
What are literacy tests?
Amendment that gave citizenship and equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
President who became leader after Lincoln’s assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Confederate money became this after the war.
What is worthless?
Southerners who supported Reconstruction.
What are scalawags?
Tax required before voting.
What is a poll tax?
Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Abolitionist who pushed for equal rights and voting rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
System where farmers paid rent with crops.
What is sharecropping?
Government agency that helped freed people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Group that used violence to stop African Americans from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Law that divided the South into five military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
First African American U.S. Senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
Farmers often fell deeper into this after borrowing money.
What is debt?
Women often became this after the war.
What are widows?
Agreement that ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Laws created in the South to limit African American rights.
What are the Black Codes?
Leader who co-founded the NAACP and demanded immediate equality,
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The Northern economy was this during Reconstruction.
What is prosperous / growing?
African American women often worked in these three roles.
What are sharecroppers, servants, or factory workers?
Laws that enforced segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?