Obstacles
Name of the terrorist group formed in the South that used violence and intimidation against African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
1st U.S. President in American history to have ever been impeached.
Andrew Johnson
How was the Election of 1876 a compromise?
The South agreed to support Hayes and the North agreed to remove federal troops from the southern states
This Reconstruction plan was the harshest towards southerners and wanted to give freedmen voting rights.
Congressional Plan or Radical Republican Plan
The nickname given to the Black Codes in the South
Jim Crow Laws
Constitutional Amendment that prevented the restriction of voting rights based on race, ethnicity, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
President of the United States whose time in office was scandalous and caused the Republican party to lose control
Ulysses S. Grant
He won the popular vote, but he eventually lost the presidential race through the Compromise of 1877.
Sam Tilden
This Reconstruction plan was lenient towards the South and wanted them to rejoin the Union ASAP
Lincoln's 10% Plan
The most common profession among Black occupants of Southern states during the Reconstruction Era that turned out to be another form of oppression.
Sharecropping
Constitutional amendment that re-defined citizenship in the United States.
14th Amendment
Extremists of a particular political party that impeached Johnson and supported African American rights
Radical Republicans
Why was the Election of 1876 significant?
It officially ended Reconstruction
OR
It allowed the South to limit the rights of African Americans
A power given to the president that allows him/her to excuse someone of a crime
A pardon
1. Test given to men in order to vote and designed to be extremely difficult
2. Why was it unfair to African Americans?
1. Literacy Test
2. Most had been newly freed from slavery and did not know how to read or write
President Andrew Johnson vetoed this particular act and Congress overrode it
Freedmen's Bureau
Northerners who moved South during the Reconstruction Era.
Carpetbaggers
Which states were disputed in this election due to voter intimidation and fraud?
Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana
The period after Reconstruction ended in the South was called this
The Solid South OR Redeemer South
1. What was the Grandfather Clause in the South?
2. Why was it unfair to African Americans?
1. A law passed that said a man could vote if their grandfather voted before 1867
2. Newly freed slaves' grandfathers were unable to vote since they were also enslaved prior to 1867
Plessy v. Ferguson
Southerners that supported the federal government during the Reconstruction Era.
Scalawags
This event ended the Reconstruction Era, and name the years of the Reconstruction Era.
Compromise of 1877, 1865-1877
America's first black congressman
Hiram Revels