After the War
This man killed President Lincoln in a theater in 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This is the main set of rules that tells how the United States government works.
What is the Constitution?
This group used violence to scare Black people during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This period after the Civil War brought Southern States back into the United States and gave Black Americans rights and freedoms—as well as new struggles.
What is Reconstruction?
Who is the Vice President?
A change or addition to this important U.S. document is called what?
What is an amendment?
These laws made the KKK illegal.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
This was a way of farming where one person grows crops on someone else's land effectively replaced slavery for many Black Americans in the South.
What is Sharecropping?
After Lincoln died, this President let Southern states make Black Codes that took away Black freedoms.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The President sent this into the South to stop hate groups.
What is the Army?
A person who breaks the law by using violence without permission.
What is a vigilante?
Which political party wanted to protect the rights of Black Americans, and was the party of Lincoln?
Who were the Republicans?
This amendment made Black people citizens with equal rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This US President was a general in the Civil War and introduced the Enforcement Acts and sent the Army in to fight the Klan.
Who is President Grant?
This government group helped freed Black people and poor whites by giving food, building schools, and making work agreements.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Which political party wanted to forgive former Confederates quickly and keep white people in charge?
The Democrats
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
In 1873, a white group attacked Black men who were guarding a courthouse in Louisiana, killing over 150 men. This event is called what?
What is the Colfax Massacre?
These Southern laws made many things illegal for Black people, such as: to be homeless, to not have a job, to not tip their hats to white people on the street.
What are Black Codes?