This president was assassinated in 1865, just after the Civil War ended.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These laws were passed by Southern states after the Civil War to restrict freedmen’s rights.
What are Black Codes?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th amendment?
This government agency was set up to assist freed slaves with food, housing, and education.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Formerly a fraternity of veterans, this organization used terror to intimidate African Americans and supporters of Reconstruction
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
He succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president and led a lenient Reconstruction policy.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Laws enforcing racial segregation in public facilities are known by this nickname
What is Jim Crow?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
The system of agriculture where landowners allowed tenants to use land in return for a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
Sharecropping often left blacks (as well as poor whites) in _________ effectively making them slaves
What is debt?
This man was the head General of the Confederacy.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This type of law restricted African Americans' rights to travel, assemble, and work certain jobs.
What are Black Codes?
This amendment guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
Northern citizens who moved South to aid Reconstruction were often called this term.
What are carpetbaggers?
Poll taxes and literacy tests were common tactics to prevent this right.
What is the right to vote?
This former Confederate General was the leader of the first wave of the KKK (Hint, remember the video we watched)
Who is Nathan Bedford Forrest?
This image depicts a racist American practice instituted from reconstruction up until the 1960s
What is Jim Crow?
This clause in the 14th Amendment was used to prevent states from infringing on individual rights.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
Southern whites who supported Reconstruction policies and worked with the Republicans were known as these.
What is a Scalawag?
A type of Black Code, these laws incarcerated black individuals for not having employment and wandering the streets.
What are vagrancy laws?
This ineffective Carpetbagger governor of Texas let Texans vote in former Confederate leaders destroying reconstruction efforts.
Who is Andrew J. Hamilton?
A common Black Code instituted in Southern States involved answering convoluted questions if you could not prove a 5th grade education.
What are literacy tests?
These three amendments, collectively known as these, aimed to establish freedom and rights for African Americans post-Civil War.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This term describes the effort to rebuild and reform Southern society and infrastructure after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
The 13th amendment states that slavery is banned in the United States unless someone is a ___________ ___________.
What is a convicted criminal?