The formation of the Ku Klux Klan inspired Congress to declars...
What is that it was illegal to interfere with elections or deny citizens equal protection.
100
In 1872, what change in southern state governments brought about the end of many Reconstruction reforms?
What is low-ranking former Confederates were permitted to hold public office.
100
A direct effect of the Compromise of 1877 was the...
What is removal of federal troops from the South.
100
The Redeemers attempted to limit the rights of African Americans by...
What is establishing laws that successfully discriminated against African Americans.
100
Jim Crow laws enforced...
What is the segregation of African Americans and whites.
200
The verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson legalized...
What is segregation as long as "separate-but-equal" facilities were provided.
200
Who were the Redeemers?
What is Democrats who brought their party back to power in the South.
200
The main goal of Reconstruction was to...
What is readmit the former Confederate states into the Union.
200
The Freedmen's Bureau was ...
What is an organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners.
200
How did the Wade-Davis Bill differ from Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
What is the Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of southern males take an oath of loyalty.
300
What did ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment mean for African Americans?
What is it provided African Americans with a future free from slavery.
300
Lincoln's main vision for Reconstruction was to...
What is reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible.
300
President Andrew Johnson's plan for wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials was to .....
What is grant them amnesty through presidential pardons.
300
The Black Codes were....
What is laws passed that limited the freedom of African Americans.
300
Southern governments believed they were justified in passing the Black Codes because they felt that....
What is the government was intended for white men only and not African Americans.
400
The Fifteenth Amendment protected the right of African American men to....
What is vote.
400
Whom did white southerners call "carpetbaggers"?
What is northern-born Republican office-holders in the South.
400
The expansion of suffrage rights to include African Americans was a reason for the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1866. True or False.
What is True.
400
How did members of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate their anger towards African Americans?
What is they used violence and terror.
400
Why was the Ku Klux Klan able to obtain a great deal of power in the South before 1870?
What is local governments did not do much to stop the violence of the group.
500
How did the sharecropping system limit opportunities for African Americans to own farms and property?
What is most sharecroppers lived in a cycle of debt, first buying goods on credit and then failing to make much money selling their crops.
500
The ___________ Amendment passed by Congress in 1865 made slavery illegal.
What is Thirteenth.
500
_________________ was a leader of the Radical Republicans from Pennsylvania who wanted to better the lives of African Americans and poor white southerners.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens.
500
To ensure that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would not be overturned, Congress proposed the ________________ Amendment, which granted citizenship to African Americans.
What is the Fourteenth.
500
The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men_____________ rights in the United Stated.