Reconstruction 1
The right to arrest an African American for not having a job.
Vagrancy Laws (Black Codes) question #1
This President prioritized unity when proposing Reconstruction legislation.
President Lincoln - question 6
This group prioritized compromise, in order to gain more seats in Congress.
Redeemers - question 8
African Americans ran for this political party.
Republican - question 10
Northern, white men who came seeking improve their political and economic situation
Scalawag - question 12
Mostly young, literate men looking for opportunity
Carpetbaggers - question 12
Provide farmers with housing, seeds, and tools.
Sharecropper - question 5
Farmer A had to buy his farming supplies and could decide what crop to grow. He would then owe a percentage of his crop to owner of the land
Share-tenancy - question 5
Farmer Ben had to pay rent to his landowner.
Tenant Farming - question 5
Pay $1 to $2 to vote.
Poll Tax (limit 15th amendment) - question 14
Proof that one could read or understand to vote
Literacy Test (limit 15th amendment) - question 14
Laws that kept white and blacks separate.
Jim Crow Laws - question 15
Court case that stated "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - question 13
Federal gov. had no control over how state chose to define citizen
Slaughterhouse cases (limit 14th amendment) - question 16
Federal gov could protect from state gov but not action of citizens
Cruikshank Case (restrict 14th amendment) - question 16
Provided food, clothing, healthcare and education to both white and African American refugee
Freemen's Bureau - question 11
Favored punishment and hard terms to Confederate States
Radical Republicans - question 9
To protect African Americans from violence
Military Reconstruction Act (Military districts or presence) - question 7
Legislation that made it a federal offense to interfere with the right to vote of citizens
Enforcement Acts (act against the KKK) question 3
Granted citizenship to African Americans and outlaw Black Codes
Civil Rights Act of 1866 (favored federal or state rights) - question 2
Constitutional amendment that granted citizenship to African Americans
14th amendment
Constitutional amendment that vote cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
15th amendment
Made slavery unconstitutional
13th amendment
citizens the right to ride trains and use public facilities but left to the courts to decide how it applied
Civil Rights Act of 1875 - question 18