Amendments & Laws
The three Amendments passed during this era are known as
What are Reconstruction Amendments
This group terrorized Black people during Reconstruction
Who is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This refers to Southerners who supported the Union during Reconstruction
What are Scalawags?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This system kept many freed African-American people tied to plantations
What is sharecropping?
This term referred to Northerners who moved to the South to make money during Reconstruction
What are Carpetbaggers?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Laws that limited the rights of freed Black people in the South
What were the Black Codes?
This political group in Congress pushed for harsher measures against the South during Reconstruction
What are the Radical Republicans?
This amendment prohibited voting discrimination based on race, color, or previous servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Laws that enforced segregation and stripped African Americans of civil rights
What were Jim Crow laws?
Commemorates the day this state’s enslaved people learned of their freedom in 1865.
What is Juneteenth?
This act officially ended Reconstruction in 1877.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
A system where freed Black people worked land for a share of the crop, often living in conditions similar to slavery
What is sharecropping?
This organization helped freed Black people with education, housing, and jobs during Reconstruction
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?