First Steps Towards Reunion
A free slave.
What is a Freedman?
Laws that limited the rights of freemen in the South after the civil war.
What are Black codes?
A white southerner who supported Radical Republicans.
What is a Scalawag?
An exam to see if a person can read or write.
What are Literacy Tests?
Fee paid by a voter in order to vote.
What is a Poll Tax?
Name two problems the South faced after the Civil War.
1. Destruction of homes, barns, bridges and cities
2. Two thirds of the Souths railroad track destroyed
3. End of economy based on slave labor/wrecked financial system
4. Death of a quarter million men
Those who led the opposition to President Johnson.
What are Radical Republicans?
A group white southerners formed to help them regain power.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This is how Hayes gained southern support in the election of 1876.
Hayes privately agreed to end Reconstruction.
A farmer who works land owned by another and gives the landowner part of the harvest.
What is a Sharecropper?
This is what the Freedmen's Bureau do?
It tried to provide food, clothing, education, jobs, and medical care for newly freemen and poor white southerners.
These are two goals the Radical Republicans had.
1. To break the power of the rich planters who had ruled in the South for years
2. To ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
This is why many African Americans and poor whites in the South became sharecroppers.
Many African Americans and poor whites had no land, money, or credit, so they worked for large landowners as sharecroppers.
This is why Republicans lost support in the North.
Northerns grew tired of trying to change the ways of the South.
They had doubts about the Republican Party.
They wanted to forget the Civil War.
A name for a northerner who went to the South during reconstruction.
What is a Carpetbagger?
This is why Republicans in Congress refused to seat the South's representatives.
Southerners had deprived African Americans of the right to vote and and elected many former Confederate officials to office.
This is the fifteenth amendment.
This forbade any state from denying African Americans the right to vote because of their race.
Name two accomplishments of the Reconstruction Government.
1. Public schools were built
2. Women were granted the right to own property
3. Care for people who were physically and mentally ill was improved
4. Railroads, telegraph lines, bridges and roads were rebuilt
These laws were passed that separated African Americans from whites in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, etc.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A law passed by southern states after the Civil War. Excused by a voter from a poll tax or literacy test if his father or grandfather had voted before 1867. Kept most African Americans from voting.
What is the Grandfather clause?
This is who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
This is the fourteenth amendment.
This granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
Roles that African Americans played in reconstruction governments. (Name 2)
1. Sheriffs
2. Mayors
3. Legislators
The lawsuit that African Americans brought to challenge segregation.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
Separation of people of different races.
What is Segregation?