Presidents
This man is the 16th president
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This character's name was created by a white actor who would imitate black people and would later be a term used to separate races.
Who was Jim Crow?
These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves
What are Black Codes
A separation by race or religion
What is segregation
This is what the 14th amendment gives
What is African-American citizenship
This man was president at the end of the Reconstruction Era
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
This is the man's name who was a white actor who would cover his face with charcoal and then sing and dance in a silly way.
Who was Daddy Rice?
This amendment creates African-American freedom
What is the 13th amendment?
These are white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies
What are scalawags
This was organized to help ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, and education
What is Freedmen's Bureau
This president was one vote away from being impeached
Who is Andrew Johnson
This man was born a free man and was an "octoroon" (of seven-eighths European descent and one-eighth African descent). However, under Louisiana law, he was classified as black, and thus required to sit in the "colored" car.
Who was Homer Plessy?
This is the branch of government responsible for impeaching and holding a trial for President Johnson.
What is the legislative branch?
This is the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South
What are carpetbaggers
This is one achievement of Reconstruction in the South.
What is the creation of a public school system?
This president agreed with Radical Republicans
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
This man was the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881. He was a lawyer and staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings in the antebellum years. He came into his presidency through The Compromise of 1877.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
The period in time in which the southern states had to ratify the 14th amendment in order to join the Union
What is Radical Reconstruction
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a portion of the crop raised on that land
What is sharecropping
This Act of 1866 forced into employment for a term of up to three months any person who appeared to be unemployed or homeless and opened the door for the convict leasing programs that would force African Americans back into involuntary servitude.
What is the Vagrancy Act
This president was against Radical Republicans
Who is Andrew Johnson
This man was the only individual to win an outright majority of the popular vote in a United States presidential election but lose the election itself. He was a Democratic candidate from New York.
Who is Samuel J. Tilden?
This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union.
What is the 10% Plan?
These were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force radical changes in Southern life and politics
What are Radical Republicans
Name three types of barriers that were instituted in the South after 1890 to keep African Americans from voting.
What are: poll taxes, literary tests, and grandfather clauses.