Presidential Reconstruction
He was President during "Presidential Reconstruction"
Andrew Johnson
During the period of Congressional Reconstruction, Congress is dominated by this political party
Republicans
This group of people made up the largest group of new voters during Southern Reconstruction
Freedmen
African Americans were harmed by this group in response to voting & holding office
KKK
African Americans were required to pay these in order to vote
Poll Taxes
This negative element of Presidential Reconstruction limited the rights & freedoms of African Americans
Black Codes
Congress sent troops to help create new governments & protect African Americans & their rights with these acts ...
Military Reconstruction Acts
This declared that no one can be denied the right to vote because of race or color
15th Amendment
These were laws to combat violence against African Americans
African Americans were denied the right to vote unless they could pass these ...
Literacy Tests
The 13th Amendment is a big positive because it ...
abolished slavery
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship and gave this ...
Equal protection under the law
These Northerners came to the South to profit financially & politically from Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
This allowed former Confederates to vote again & resulted in most African Americans being voted out of office
Amnesty Act
The laws that segregated blacks & whites in public
Jim Crow Laws
This organization (a positive) helps former slaves find jobs, food & medical care
The Freedmen's Bureau
This new economic "opportunity" for former slaves typically led to a life of poverty & debt.
Sharecropping
Scalawag
Republicans got Hayes as President & the South got Federal troops removed as a result of this ...
The Compromise of 1877
The decision in this Supreme Court case declared segregation legal as long as facilities were separate but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Johnson's Reconstruction plan is positive because it makes states ratify the 13th Amendment, but it is negative because it allows for these ...
Black Codes
This act declared freedmen full citizens with the same civil rights as whites.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
African Americans made up this percentage of Republicans who were elected during Southern Reconstruction
20%
This Democratic Presidential won both the popular vote and the majority of electoral votes, but did NOT become President
Samuel Tilden
Jim Crow laws will be enforced in the South until this decade
1960s (1965 - to be exact)