"You have to pay money whether you like it or not."
What is a poll tax?
100
They passed the Wade-Davis Bill in 1864 which made it difficult for Southern States to rejoin the Union.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
100
She refused to sit at the back of the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
They escaped to Kansas for a better life.
Who are the Exodusters?
100
The first hate group formed against African-Americans in the South during Reconstruction?
What is the KKK?
200
A test that required African-American voters to read and write in order to vote
What is a literacy test?
200
These laws were meant to control newly freed African-Americans. Some made it illegal for African-Americans to own or rent farms. Others made it easy for white employers to take advantage of African-American workers.
What were the black codes?
200
African-American students were forbidden to attend these with white students.
What is a school?
200
This was the name given to African-American soldiers who joined the Army.
Who were the 'Buffalo Soldiers'?
200
This means when a mob kills a person, especially by hanging.
What is lynching?
300
These were laws stating that a voter could vote if his father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction. African-Americans could not vote until 1867, so they could not meet this requirement.
What is the grandfather clause?
300
Landowner: "I am giving you some land to farm. In return, you must give a part - or share- of your crops to me."
Farmer: "This is unfair. We have little left to sell after giving you your share. There's not even enough to feed our families."
What is sharecropping?
300
African-Americans could not sit and eat in a diner or restaurant with whites. Instead, they had to do this.
What is take out or ordering to go?
300
The bible story of the Exodus which described the Jews' escape from slavery in Egypt.
What is the story that the Exodusters named their journey to Kansas after?