Reconstruction
Which amendment gave citizenship to freedmen?
What is the 14th amendment?
The white supremacist organization that wore hood and kept their membership secret.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
the separation of people by race.
What is segregation?
This Supreme Court Case allowed segregation as long as facilities were "separate, but equal" in quality.
What was the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
This man was a former Union general who became president and tried to go after the KKK.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The name for the laws the Southern States passed shorted after the end of slavery to restrict freedom for freedmen.
What are the Black Codes?
This type of voting restriction forced people to pay money to vote.
What is a poll tax?
Which amendment ended slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was a government organization designed to help freedmen and poor white people in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This form of violence was used as a technique by the KKK to intimidate freedmen.
What is lynching?
This type of voting restriction required freedmen to prove they could read and write.
What are literacy tests?
Which amendment gave black men the right to vote?
What is the 15th Amendment?
This man was the first African-American to serve in Congress.
Who was Hiram Revels?
The labor system where both poor clank and white farmers had to rent tools, seeds, and land from a white landowner.
What is Sharecropping?
This type of voting restriction required voters to prove their grandfathers had ben allowed to vote before the Civil War.
What is a grandfather clause?
This political party set up military districts in the South.
What is the (Radical) Republican party?
This person became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln's death.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This man became America's seventeenth president in April 1865 and did not want to give rights to freedmen.
What is Andrew Johnson?
The Election of 1876 ended in a dispute that led to the end of Reconstruction called the Compromise of 1877. What did each party get out of the agreement?
What is the Republican got the presidency and the Democrats got troop removed from the South, a new railroad, money for industrial building, and a representative in the Cabinet.
This man intentionally sat in a segregated train car to fight segregation laws in 1890.
Who is Homer Plessy?