Reconstruction and Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This event in 1877 marked the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
These laws enforced racial segregation in Southern states.
What are Jim Crow laws?
In this farming system, freedmen worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
What are black codes?
This government agency helped formerly enslaved people with food, housing, and education.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This president’s election led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This was a fee that African Americans often couldn’t afford, which prevented them from voting.
What is a poll tax?
This group of African Americans migrated to Kansas and other states for better opportunities in the late 1800s.
Who are the Exodusters?
This law passed to combat black codes which gave citizenship to African Americans.
What is The Civil rights Acts?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
In 1872, this law restored right to vote to nearly all white southerners
What is the Amnesty Act?
This type of test was used to keep African Americans from voting by making them impossible to pass.
What are literacy tests?
This period marked the mass migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities for better jobs and escape from Jim Crow laws.
What is the Great Migration?
This secret society formed by white southerners to help them regain power.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
This set of laws divided the South into military districts to enforce African American rights.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
With the end of Reconstruction, Southern states began passing laws that restricted African American rights. Name these laws.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This Supreme Court case established the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Sharecropping often kept African Americans in a cycle of poverty due to this reason.
What is debt?
He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This term refers to the South regaining power after Reconstruction, often rolling back rights for African Americans.
What is Southern Redemption?
These laws allowed only people whose grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction to vote, excluding most African Americans.
What are grandfather clauses?
These acts of racial violence, often by hanging, were used to terrorize black communities and maintain white supremacy.
What are lynchings?
the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
What is segregation?