Freedman's Bureau
The organization created to help the millions of newly freed African Americans in the South transition from slavery to freedom at the end of the war.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
The amendment outlawed this institution
What is Slavery?
The amendment that granted voting rights to all persons regardless of race
What is the 15th Amendment
The right given to freedmen following the passage of the 15th amendment
What is voting?
The contested election that ended Reconstruction
What is the election of 1876?
What is education OR creating Black schools?
Where the 13th Amendment allowed the institution of slavery to continue legally
What are prisons?
The method used by states to prevent Black Americans from voting that involved reading.
What is a literacy test?
The organization created following the Civil War to uphold White Supremacy by attacking and killing Black citizens and those that enforced Reconstruction policies
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Following Reconstruction Southern states implemented these types of laws that discriminated against Black citizens
What are Jim Crow Laws?
One failure of the Freedman's Bureau was not providing Black Americans enough basic needs forcing them to take this difficult farming role.
What is Sharecropping?
The method Southern states to used to prevent Black Americans from voting that involved money
What are poll taxes?
The failure of the 13th amendment led to Southern states passing this restrictive laws.
What are Black Codes?
This man became the first Black member Congress in 1870
Who is Hiram Revels?
The President that oversaw the decline of Reconstruction policies like abolishing the Freedman's Bureau.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The work the Bureau did interviewing freedmen led to what long term effect?
What is learning about your ancestors?
The main goal of the 14th Amendment
What is expand Civil Rights?
The long term negative policy that came from the Supreme court not fully enforcing the 14th Amendment.
What is segregation?
The name for Lincoln's proposed plan to allow Confederate states back into the Union
What is the 10 percent plan?
The death of this Confederate General in 1870 helped build the "Lost Cause Myth"
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The phrase and promise from General Sherman during the Civil War many thought would be delivered by the Freedman's Bureau.
What is "40 acres and a mule?"
The 14th Amendment stated "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside" introducing this idea
What is birthright citizenship?
The years the Reconstruction Amendments were ratified (passed by Congress and enough states).
What is 1865, 1868, and 1870?
The number of Black Americans elected to Congress in 1870, the first time Black Americans were elected to Congress.
What is 6?
Republicans agreed to this in the Compromise of 1877
What is the removal of federal troops?