Vocabulary
Who are Northerners who came to the South to open business or to help African Americans?
Who are Carpetbaggers?
This law passed by Congress during Reconstruction made racial discrimination illegal.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Did Johnson's plan want to: A) punish the south B) go easy on the south
What is B) go easy on the south
All southerners followed Lincoln's, Johnson's, and the Radical Republicans Plan without question. A)True B)False
What is B) False?
Citizens had to pay a fee to the poll worker before they could vote. This fee was called a...
What is a Poll Tax?
The period in time from 1865 -1877 to rebuild the country after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment granted African Americans US citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This plan pardoned all southerners if 10% swore allegiance to the Union.
What is Lincoln's 10% plan
This secret group was formed to maintain white supremacy in the south.
What is the Klu Klux Klan (KKK)?
US citizens had to pass reading and logic questions that the poll worker graded. These questions were...
What is a Literacy Test or Poll Test?
Laws created to separate people by race
What is Segregation?
This amendment granted voting rights to all male citizens in the US.
What is the 15th Amendment?
1865 to 1877 was known as the period of...
What is the Reconstruction Era?
These laws were created to restrict and control African Americans regardless of the amendments.
What are the Black Codes?
The KKK and others used this tactic to stop blacks from voting in elections.
What is intimidation and violence?
Laws passed in the South after the Civil War that placed restrictions on freed slaves.
What are Black Codes?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are referred to as...
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This plan forced southerner politicians and military leaders to beg for forgiveness.
What is Johnson's Plan?
These laws called for separate schools, libraries, restrooms, and hospitals.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Which African American believed that African Americans should be granted equal rights regardless of their educational status? A) Booker T. Washington B) W.E.B. Dubois DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
A federal agency created by Congress during Reconstruction. It gave food, clothing, set up schools to help freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This Amendment banned slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
What was the name of the Republicans who ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and occupied the south with the US military.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This case was sent to the Supreme Court after a black man was arrested for riding the train in the "white" car. This law established that it was okay to create "separate but equal" settings.
What is the Plessy vs. Ferguson case?
This law stated that,"only those who had grandfathers who could vote BEFORE the Civil War could vote in elections.
What is the Grandfather Clause?