Political Changes
Many white Southerners accepted the end of slavery but resisted this type of change.
What are social changes / equality for African Americans?
Tests requiring people to read and write before voting.
What are literacy tests?
This group used violence and terror against African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This compromise settled the election of 1876.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Separation of people based on race.
What is segregation?
Many Southerners were upset about African Americans doing this in government.
What is holding public office?
A tax that had to be paid before voting.
What is a poll tax?
The KKK wore these to hide their identities.
What are white hoods?
This president agreed to remove troops from the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Laws that made segregation legal in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This president pardoned many former Confederate leaders.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Why were these voting requirements created?
What is to prevent African Americans from voting?
Congress passed these laws to stop violence and protect voting rights.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
What happened when federal troops left the South?
What is Reconstruction ended?
The Supreme Court case that allowed “separate but equal”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1872 law restored voting rights to most former Confederates.
What is the Amnesty Act?
This belief held that the Caucasian race was superior to others.
What is white supremacy?
These acts gave power to this level of government to punish crimes.
What is the federal government?
Southern Democrats promised to protect these rights (but often did not).
What are African American rights?
What did “separate but equal” actually lead to?
What is unequal treatment?
Why did many Southerners oppose Reconstruction governments?
What is they opposed equality and government support for African Americans?
These restrictions made it difficult for African Americans to do this right
What is vote?
The purpose of KKK violence was to stop African Americans from doing what?
What is voting and exercising their rights?
Why was the Compromise of 1877 important?
What is it ended Reconstruction and federal protection of rights?
These three amendments promised rights that were often ignored.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?