Vocabulary
Reconstruction Amendments
Reconstruction Events
Key Groups
Black Codes
100
The time period after the civil war that focused on rebuilding the south, ending slavery, and incorporating freed slaves into society
Reconstruction
100
The 13th amendment did what?
Outlawed slavery and freed all slaves
100
This president was assassinated for wanting to establish the 13th amendment which abolished slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
100
This group terrorized African American communities after the passing of the 13th Amendment
The Ku Klux Klan
100
This black code made it so that black men would have to pay a fee to vote in elections
Poll Taxes
200
A set of laws that created unequal conditions for African Americans in terms of voting and general freedoms
Black Codes
200
The 14th amendment did what?
Granted all African Americans citizenship
200
This vice president took office after lincoln and created a reconstruction plan that was not beneficial to African Americans
Andrew Johnson
200
This organization was created to better the lives of African Americans but also helped poor whites in the South
The freedmen's bureau
200
This black code made it legal to force black voters to take a test to prove they were literate to vote.
Literacy Tests
300
A system of labor where poor African Americans worked on farms in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropping
300
The 15th amendment did what?
Granted all African American men the right to vote
300
The amnesty act 1872 allowed White Southerners to vote again and hold political office. What does amnesty mean?
Forgiveness
300
How did the Ku Klux Klan stop black men from voting?
Threats, intimidation, and/or acts of violence
300
This black code took African Americans that were unfairly imprisoned for minor crimes to be rented out or "leased" by white business owners.
Convict Leasing
400
The separation of people by their race (Hint: "Separate but equal")
Segregation
400
Which amendment allowed more black men to be elected into office?
The 15th amendment
400
This court case ended with the supreme court ruling the segregation was legal, as long as facilities were "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
400
What political party was Lincoln a part of (HINT: the party that was against slavery)
Republican
400
How were African Americans creating their own communities during the Black Codes?
Opening up all black schools/churches
500
These laws replaced black codes and made made segregation and discrimination legal in the states.
Jim Crow Laws
500
The 15th Amendment
500
This compromise allowed Hayes to take the presidency but only if he agreed to remove troops from the south.
(HINT: This ended reconstruction)
Compromise of 1877
500
The Plessy v. Ferguson case made its way to the highest court in the land. What court was it?
The Supreme Court
500
Reconstruction era