Key People
The first African American senator
Who is Hiram Revels?
System in which farm laborers kept some of the crop
What is sharecropping?
Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, which required that 10 percent of voters in a state pledge loyalty to the United States before that state could rejoin the Union
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
a financial crisis that triggered a economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1877
What is the Panic of 1873?
Vice president who became president upon Lincoln’s death
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Laws that enforced segregation
What are jim crow laws?
Supreme Court ruling that upheld segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Southern laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
What are Black Codes?
Secret society that used violence to oppress African Americans
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
The process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official
What is impeachment?
Laws passed to protect African American rights
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
A period of reuniting and rebuilding the South following the end of the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Republicans who wanted more federal control in Reconstruction
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This is a special tax people had to pay before they could vote
What is a poll tax?
Amendment guaranteeing suffrage (the right to vote) to African American men
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
Amendment guaranteeing citizens equal protections of laws
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
An organization established by Congress to provide relief for all the South’s poor people
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This was Forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places
What is segregation?
Agreement in which Democrats accepted Hayes’s election to the presidency in exchange for removing federal troops from the South
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Act giving African Americans the same legal rights as whites
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?