Reconstruction Plans
This group wanted southern states to write new state constitutions and allow northern troop occupation, among other requirements in order to rejoin the Union.
Radical Republicans
These are 'rules' intended to restrict the freedom and opportunities of African Americans
Black Codes
These are the numbers of the three Reconstruction Amendments.
13, 14, 15
This side won the Civil War
The North
Paying a tax in order to vote.
Poll tax
This president did not want strict requirements for southern states to rejoin the union. He vetoed the Radical Republican plan for reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
This is the forced separation of races in public places.
Segregation
The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th
Which land grant program promised acreage to newly freed African Americans before being cancelled and restored to previous plantation owners?
40 Acres and a Mule
A test one needed to pass in order to vote.
Literacy test
This president wanted the country to unify as quickly as possible. Too bad he wasn’t able to see that happen.
Abraham Lincoln
This is a terror group which targets African Americans. Tactics of this group included burning of African American schools, and attacks on Freedmen’s Bureau officials, voter intimidation.
KKK
Abolished slavery
13th
Paying a share of your crop instead of cash. This often led to racking up debt by needing to borrow money from planters to buy food, tools, and supplies.
Sharecropping
If you had an ancestor who voted before January 1, 1867, you were exempted from other voting restrictions.
Grandfather Clause
Reconstruction officially ended as a result of negotiations of this presidential election. It has come to be known as this.
Compromise of 1877
This Supreme Court Case said that separate but equal facilities were constitutional.
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Granted citizenship to African Americans
14th
What two crops did plantation owners depend on slave labor for?
Cotton and Tobacco
The 15th amendment sparked this group’s movement for equal rights.
Women
What agency dispersed funds and helped create education opportunities to former slaves?
The Freedmen's Bureau
Laws legalizing racial segregation that were enacted in Southern states beginning in 1880.
Jim Crow Laws
The “Equal protection clause” is found in this amendment
14th
Before the Civil War, why did the North not depend on slave labor while the South did?
The North relied on an industrial economy based on manufacturing, factories, and wage labor, whereas the Southern economy centered on labor-intensive plantation agriculture.
Which presidential candidate made a compromise to allow the removal of all federal protection for Black Americans in the South?
Rutheford Hayes