founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence; other targets: Catholics, Jews, immigrants and others thought to be un-American
What is Ku Klux Klan
100
abolished slavery
What is 13th amendment
100
he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
What is Abraham Lincoln
100
to pay rent to farm the land,owned the crops they grew, and were less at the mercy of white landowners than sharecroppers
What is Tenant Farming
200
bring an accusation against
What is impeach
200
movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
What is civil rights movement
200
Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
What is 14th amendment
200
he was president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination and was once a slave owner
What is Andrew Johnson
200
to form a portion of a landowner's land in return for housing and share of the crop.
What is sharecropping
300
someone from the north comes down to the south to help out
What is carpetbagger
300
a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
atone
What is Harlem Renaissance
300
citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
What is 15th amendment
300
he was secretary of war who was appointed by Lincoln.
What is Edwin Stanton
300
under the conditions of this compromise, democrats agreed to Hayes being president, and republicans agreed to end reconstruction
What is compromise of 1877
400
a clause that allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began; an exceptionto a law based on preexisting circumstances
What is granfather clause
400
someone from the north comes down to the south to help out
What is carpetbagger
400
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
What is Black Codes
400
he founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and taught his students that if blacks excelled in teaching, agriculture and blue collar fields, they would eventually be treated as equal citizens.
What is Booker T. Washington
400
in 1896, the Supreme Court upheld de jure segregation in the case of
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
500
black newspaper by Robert S. Abbott that was brought by train to the South • Implored blacks to come North for jobs
What is chicago defender
500
A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote
What is Literacy Test
500
Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil war
What is radical republicans
500
he was first black Ph.D. graduate from Harvard University.
What is W.E.B DuBois
500
she was one of the most influential African American women of the post Reconstruction era