Reconstruction Era
Vocabulary
Important People
Amendments and Legislation
Civil Rights
100
Panic/ Depression of 1873
What is Economic collapse in American economy that shifted the tide of Reconstruction
100
Scalawag
What is A white Southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
100
W.E.B. Dubois
What is Founding member of the NAACP; demanded immediate social and political equality for African Americans
100
Atlanta Compromise Speech
What is The agreement was that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law. Blacks would not agitate for equality, integration, or justice, and Northern whites would fund black educational charities.
100
convict lease system
What is Sheriffs would rent out prisoners to do free labor.
200
Radical Republicans
What is Members of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
200
Grandfather clause
What is Southern laws that excluded African Americans from voting by restricting the right to vote only to those whose grandfathers had voted before 1865
200
Booker T. Washington
What is I argued that African Americans could only demand civil and equality when they achieved economic success; founded Tuskegee Institute
200
Civil Rights Act of 1866
What is Congressional act granted citizenship and the voting rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."
200
March on Washington
What is Over 200,000 people were at this event to convince the government to pass civil rights laws. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
300
10 Percent Plan
What is Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
300
Amnesty
What is a Government pardon
300
Thaddeus Stevens
What is Radical Republican representative from Pennsylvania who fought for the rights and equality of the freed slaves.
300
Brown vs Board of Education
What is The Supreme Court decision saying "separate but equal" was against the law. A little girl had to walk 10 miles to get to her all black school when there was a white school next to her house. This integrated the schools.
300
Montgomery Bus Boycott
What is African Americans in Alabama decided not to ride buses because they were not allowed to sit in the front of the bus. After losing a lot of money, the owners of the buses decided to let African American sit in the front. Buses were integrated because of this.
400
Freedman's Bureau
What is Government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
400
Reconstruction
What is Era after Civil War from 1865 to 1877. Marked by violence and government disagreements over power to enact laws, to admit the Confederate states back into the Union, and protecting the rights of freed slaves.
400
Ulysses S. Grant
What is Signed legislation aimed at limiting the Ku Klux Klan that used violence to intimidate blacks and prevent them from voting. Stationed federal troops throughout the South to maintain law and order.
400
Jim Crow Laws
What is State laws in the South that legalized segregation aimed at African Americans and encouraged discrimination of civil liberties.
400
Little Rock Nine and Central High school
What is This was the first high school to be integrated. 9 African Americans started going to the all white high school. The military was there to protect them.
500
Reconstruction
What is Era after Civil War from 1865 to 1877. Marked by violence and government disagreements over power to enact laws, to admit the Confederate states back into the Union, and protecting the rights of freed slaves.
500
conscription
What is compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
500
Hiram Rhodes Revels
What is On February 25, 1870, was seated as the first black member of the Senate.
500
Plessy vs Ferguson
What is 1896 Supreme court ruled that segregation of public places and facilities were legal as long as the facilities were equal - "separate but equal"
500
Freedom Riders
What is A group of black and white people that got on buses and traveled south to Alabama to protest the segregation of buses. When they got to Alabama they were met by people who were very angry, and set a bus on fire!
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