Reconstruction Basics
This period lasted from 1865 to 1867 and focused on rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment granted citizenship to people born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th amendment?
This president was assassinated shortly after Civil War, leading Andrew Johnson to become president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This term refers to the people who were formerly enslaved after the Civil War.
Who are freedpeople or formerly enslaved people?
This white supremacist organization used violence and intimidation to oppose Black political participation during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This U.S. president began Reconstruction after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This group of politicians in Congress pushed for stronger protections and rights for formerly enslaved people.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
The Southern laws restricted the freedom and rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
These laws were created to segregate public facilities and enforce racial discrimination, particularly after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This was one major goal of Reconstruction (will take one of the two answers).
What is rebuilding/reuniting the country and protecting the rights of formerly enslaved people?
This amendment prohibited denying someone the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th amendment?
This federal agency was created to assist formerly enslaved people and poor Southerners after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This system allowed many African Americans to work land owned by white landowners in exchange for a portion of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
This Supreme Court case later upheld racial segregation under the idea of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This region of the United States was the main focus of Reconstruction efforts after the Civil War.
What is the South?
This amendment excluded which demographic as citizens even if born in the United States.
What are the 14th amendment and Native Americans?
This group was founded in Tennessee in 1865 and became one of the most infamous white supremacist organizations in American history.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Why did sharecropping often leave families trapped in poverty and debt?
What is because workers often had to borrow money and supplies and could owe more than they earned from their crops?
This disputed presidential election helped lead to the Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction.
What is the election of 1876?
Reconstruction officially came to an end after this event in 1877.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
If the 13th amendment ended slavery, why were the 14th & 15th amendments still necessary?
What is because ending slavery didn't automatically guarantee citizenship, equal protection, or voting rights?
This African American leader became the first Black U.S. Senator to serve a full six-year term.
Who is Hiram Revels?
These were the 3 types of farming systems used at the end of and post Reconstruction.
What are sharecropping, share-tenancy, and tenant farming?
Why was the end of Reconstruction a turning point for African Americans in the South.
What is because federal protection decreased, allowing Southern states to impose segregation and other forms of racial discrimination?