Amendments/Laws
The 13th Amendment?
What is Abolished Slavery?
Which agency helped newly freed slaves after the civil War?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
He Issued the Emancipation Proclamation; wanted an easy plan for admitting ex-Confederate states back to the Union. (10% Plan) AKA “Honest Abe”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He became president after Lincoln was impeached?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Secret terrorists group who terrorized African Americans in the south through violence
The KKK?
This amendment gave African Americans the right to Vote?
What is the 15th Amendment?
Which group of people were most affected by the ratification of the 14th Amendment?
African Americans
Southerners who supported the north were called what?
What is Scalawags?
President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln?
Reconstruction occurred after which war?
What is the Civil War?
This Amendment gave Citizenship to all citizens?
What is the 14th amendment?
System where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. ?
What is Sharecropping?
This group wanted the federal government to intervene and drastically change Southern society; they impeached Johnson.
Who are Radical Republicans?
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
White Northerners who went south during Reconstruction to make money and take advantage of White Southerners.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
These laws limited the freedoms and rights of African Americans?
What are Black Codes?
Time period from 1865-1877 when the nation was engaged in rebuilding the Union after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
What (unkept) promise spread among the formerly enslaved African Americans at the end of the Civil War?
What is 40 acres and a mule?
He was born free, became the first black Harvard PhD, and founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B Dubois?
What was Lincolns plan called?
What is the 10% plan?
Laws that denied African Americans basic rights through segregation; named after a racist stage performance of a black person (Black Face)
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Compromise between Republicans and Democrats that allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to becomes president; ended Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This famous court case said that separate but equal facilities were legal, supporting segregation in the U.S.
What is Plessy V Ferguson?
He believed that blacks should receive their full civil rights now and segregation must be ended immediately.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
He became President after Andrew Johnson
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?