Laws
It ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
The plan to rebuild the country
What is Reconstruction?
The organization created to help former slaves
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The end of the Civil War
What is April 9, 1865?
It gave all men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
When African Americans worked on the land rented from white farmers without pay.
What is sharecropping?
The name of the group who terrorized African Americans
What is the Ku Klux Klan? (KKK)
Lincoln's Assassination
What is April 15, 1865?
It gave citizenship to all people born in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?
A white person from the North who moved to the South to make money
What is a carpetbagger?
A fee paid to vote
What is a poll tax?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What is 1863?
Allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to be president and remove troops from the South
What is the Compromise of 1877?
A white person in the South who supported Reconstruction after the Civil War
What is a scalawag?
A test to see whether you could read and write in order to vote
What is a literacy test?
When laws were passed to limit the rights of African Americans voting
What is the 1880s?
The Radical Republicans Plan
What is the Reconstruction Act?
When charges are brought against a US President
What is impeachment?
A law that said you could vote if you grandfather was allowed to vote
What is the Grandfather Clause?
What is 1872?