Freedom Fighters
This many African Americans fought for the Union during the Civil War.
About 200,000
This agency helped freed people with food, schools, and contracts after the war.
The Freedmen's Bureau
This Representative oversaw Radical Reconstruction and oversaw the passing of the Reconstruction Amendments
Thaddeus Stevens.
This secret society, founded in Tennessee, used violence against freed people and Republicans.
The Ku Klux Klan
The presidential election of 1876 was disputed between these two candidates.
Tilden and Hayes
The name of the combat units for African Americans in the United States military
United States Colored Troops
Lincoln’s lenient plan for readmitting Southern states.
The 13th amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States, except for...
The KKK’s first Grand Wizard was this former Confederate general.
Grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests were used to circumvent this amendment.
The 15th Amendment
The phrase popularized for post-war gifts for African Americans who fought for the Union, originating from William Sherman
40 acres and a mule.
The president who succeeded Lincoln and clashed with Congress over Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
The 14th Amendment overturned this infamous pre-war Supreme Court decision.
Dred Scott Decision
White Southern Democrats who regained control were called this.
Redeemer Democrats
This deal ended Reconstruction in the south and federal protection for African Americans and their new civil rights.
The Compromise of 1877
The Confiscation Acts treated escaped enslaved people as this.
Contraband of War
The period when Congress took control of Reconstruction after 1866.
Radical Reconstruction
The 15th Amendment did what?
Gave voting rights to all male American citizens, regardless of color or ethnicity
The economy system that kept many freedpeople in debt.
Sharecropping
Jim Crow laws effectively did what.
Created racial segregation in the United States
This abolitionist recruited Black soldiers for the Union, including his own sons.
Fredrick Douglass
Southern governments under Johnson passed these restrictive laws against freed peopl
The Black Codes/Laws
What three amendments did southern states have to ratify to reenter the Union?
Lynching
A popular term derived from an United States Supreme Court Case that upheld Jim Crow Laws.
"Separate but equal"