What is the 14th Amendment??
Granted citizenship to slaves
What is sharecropping?
A farming system in the southern states that allowed tenants to work the land, and in return they kept a percentage of the crops
Which political party lost its power first?
Bonus question- Who lost it second??
Democrats
Republicans
Which state got readmitted first after the Civil War?
Tennessee
Which Amendments were not reinforced
14th and 15th
What were the black codes?
Unwritten laws and ethical codes to restrict African Americans
Who were the tenants??
Former slaves
Who lost power during the reconstruction era?
White southern elites
What was a requiremnet to be readmitted?
Ratification of the 14th Amendment
The name for the Jim Crow laws originate from??
Minstrel show character, a blackface routine created by white performer Thomas "Daddy" Rice in the 1830s
The federal government passed various acts to extend rights to African Americans, what were they called?
Civil Rights Act of 1866
What were the negative effects of sharecropping?
Tenants were trapped in a cycle of debt and economic dependence
How did African Americans gain power after the Civil War?
By voting and holding elected office through rights granted by the Reconstruction Amendments.
Which state was the last state to be readmitted and what year did this occur?
1870 with Georgia's final readmission.
Segregation started with what law?
1841 Massachusetts law
How many documented death occured from 1865 to 1876 caused by the KKK
2,000
what were the primary crops cultivated/grow in the reconstruction Era
Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice
How did the end of Reconstruction affect Black Americans' power?
They experienced suppression through Jim Crow laws
What was a good thing that came from the Reconstruction Era in regard to schooling?
Establishment of public schools in the South
Why was the KKK formed?
It was formed to prevent the republicans from gaining power
Which buildings did the Civil Rights Act allow black citizens to enter
Theatres, Public Schools, Churches, and Cemeteries.
There was a law that allows a system where landlords could set crop values and didn't require written contracts or record-keeping for tenants. What is this law called?
North Carolina Landlord Tenant Acts of 1868 and 1877
The Panic of 1873 was a significant financial crisis in the United States, starting in September 1873 with the collapse of the banking firm Jay Cooke & Co. What was this triggered by?
Over-investment in railroads and the crash of the banking system
The Reconstruction Era Act temporarily placed the South under military rule, what were they watching for?
Overseeing elections and other aspects of government
By the 1870s what percentage of criminal custody in Southern states were Black as a result of black codes and Jim Crow Laws
95%