Reconstruction Basics
What was Reconstruction?
Post-Civil War rebuilding
Who was Andrew Johnson?
17th President
What system of labor replaced slavery?
Sharecropping
What were Black Codes?
Restrictive Laws
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
What was impeachment?
Removal process
What economic challenges did the South face?
Debt/Poverty
What laws enforced segregation?
Jim Crow laws
What were carpetbaggers?
Northern Migrants
Which amendment granted citizenship?
14th Amendment
What political party dominated Congress?
Republican Party
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Aid Agency
What were Jim Crow laws?
Segregation Laws
What were scalawags?
Southern Republicans
What amendment protected voting rights?
15th Amendment
What was Radical Reconstruction?
Strict federal control
What caused the Panic of 1873?
Economic crisis
What were poll taxes?
Voting Fees
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
White supremacist group
What rights were expanded during Reconstruction?
Voting/Citizenship
What was Military Reconstruction?
Army oversight
What agreement removed federal troops in 1877?
Compromise of 1877
What were literacy tests?
Reading requirements
What ended Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877