Civil Rights
Backlash
Loss of Power
Readmitting states
Unenforced Amendments
100

What is the 14th Amendment??

Granted citizenship to slaves 

100

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 

100

Which political party lost its power first? 

Bonus question- Who lost it second??

Democrats 

Republicans 

100

Which state got readmitted first after the Civil War? 

Tennessee

100

Which Amendments were not reinforced 

14th and 15th

200

What were the black codes?

Unwritten laws and ethical codes to restrict African Americans 

200

Who were the tenants??

Former slaves 

200

Who lost power during the reconstruction era?

White southern elites 

200

What was a requiremnet to be readmitted?

Ratification of the 14th Amendment

200

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

300

The federal government passed various acts to extend rights to African Americans, what were they called?

 Civil Rights Act of 1866

300

What were the negative effects of sharecropping?

Tenants were trapped in a cycle of debt and economic dependence

300

How did African Americans gain power after the Civil War?

By voting and holding elected office through rights granted by the Reconstruction Amendments.

300

Which state was the last state to be readmitted and what year did this occur?

1870 with Georgia's final readmission.

300

Segregation started with what law?

1841 Massachusetts law

400

How many documented death occured from 1865 to 1876 caused by the KKK

 2,000

400

what were the primary crops cultivated/grow in the reconstruction Era 

Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice

400

How did the end of Reconstruction affect Black Americans' power?

They experienced suppression through Jim Crow laws

400

What was a good thing that came from the Reconstruction Era in regard to schooling?

Establishment of public schools in the South

400

Why was the KKK formed?

It was formed to prevent the republicans from gaining power

500

Which buildings did the Civil Rights Act allow black citizens to enter

Theatres, Public Schools, Churches, and Cemeteries.

500

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

500

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

500

The Reconstruction Era Act temporarily placed the South under military rule, what were they watching for?

Overseeing elections and other aspects of government 

500

By the 1870s what percentage of criminal custody in Southern states were Black as a result of black codes and Jim Crow Laws

95%

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