Key terms
What was the period after the Civil War when the U.S. rebuilt the South and tried to reunite the country?
Reconstruction
Which amendment ended slavery in the United States?
13th
Who became president after Lincoln’s assassination?
Andrew Johnson
What laws limited the freedom of African Americans in the South?
Black Codes
What year did Reconstruction end?
1877
What term described formerly enslaved people after the Civil War?
Freedmen
Which amendment protected voting rights for African American men?
15th
What Civil War general became president in 1869?
Ulysses S. Grant
What secret group used violence to intimidate African American voters?
Ku Klux Klan
What agreement ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South?
What system forced farmers to give part of their crops to landowners as payment for land?
Sharecropping
Which amendment gave citizenship and equal protection under the law?
14th
What group of Republicans in Congress pushed for strict Reconstruction policies?
Radicals
What government agency helped freed slaves with education and aid?
Freedmen's Bureau
What political party regained control of most Southern governments?
Deomcrats
What nickname was given to Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers
What nickname is given to the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments together?
Reconstruction Amendments
What abolitionist leader advised presidents and supported equal rights for African Americans?
Fredrick Douglass
What system separated races in the South after Reconstruction?
Segregation
What term described Southern Democrats who wanted to restore white control?
Redeemers
What nickname was given to Southern whites who supported Reconstruction governments?
Scalawags
What word describes the right to vote?
Suffrage
What president was nearly removed from office during Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
What Supreme Court case supported segregation with “separate but equal”?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What system of racial laws dominated the South after Reconstruction ended?
Jim Crow Laws