Reconstruction 1
The name of the terrorist organization created during the Reconstruction Era in the South, that used terror to enforce white supremacy.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
The first person to have ever successfully assassinated a sitting U.S. President.
This person assassinated(killed) President Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
This person was President during Presidential Reconstruction.
Abraham Lincoln
Under this plan, a southern state could rejoin the union if 10 percent of its voters took an oath of loyalty to the U.S.
Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan
Period directly after the Civil War, to try to reunite the South and the North
Reconstruction
What forms of media were used to promote the propaganda of racial stereotypes?
Cartoons, Film, Blackface
After Reconstruction, Southern states passed laws that enforced racial segregation in schools, transportation, and public spaces under the idea of “separate but equal.” These laws became a major system of discrimination against African Americans in the South.
Jim Crow Laws
Constitutional Amendment that prevented the restriction of voting rights based on race, ethnicity, or previous condition of servitude. This amendment provided voting rights to African American men.
15th Amendment
This person became President of the United States following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
President Andrew Johnson
These schools for higher education were created during Presidential Reconstruction.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
HBCUs
What two films promoted the Lost Cause Ideology?
"Birth of a Nation" and "Gone with the Wind"
True or False: Violence against African American was only experienced in the South.
False
What racist characters were used to promote racist stereotypes?
Blackface
After the Civil War, many formerly enslaved African Americans and poor white farmers worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops. This system often kept farmers trapped in debt and poverty. This was another form of slavery, oppression.
Sharecropping
This Constitutional amendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
14th Amendment
This event marked the end of Presidential Reconstruction.
Assassination of President Lincoln
This reconstruction was marked by Supreme Courts cases that reversed the progress being made.
Radical Reconstruction
The name of members of congress during the Reconstruction Era that wished to provide voting rights toward the freedmen.
Radical Republicans
Hiram Revels
Massacre that killed hundreds after an African American man was elected to office in the South in 1873.
Colfax Massacre
These tests required voters to read and interpret complex texts. These exams were designed nearly impossible to pass. They were created as a way to unfairly fail African Americans and not allow them to vote.
Literacy Test
This court case gutted the 14th amendment. The court ruled that the 14th amendment did not protect individual citizens from violence committed by private citizens.
United States v. Cruikshank
During Presidential Reconstruction, these military forces were stationed in the South to enforce new laws, protect formerly enslaved African Americans, and maintain order after the Civil War.
Federal Troops
This government agency provided food, education, medical care, and assistance to formerly enslaved people and poor Southerners during Reconstruction.
Freedmen's Bureau
What was sold following the Tulsa Race Massacre that is used today as archival evidence?
Postcards
This allowed individuals to bypass literacy tests and poll taxes if their ancestors had the right to vote before the Civil War.
Grandfather Clauses
This ideology or mythology promoted the false idea that the South were victims and slavery was not bad.
Lost Cause Ideology
The name of the additional charge or fee required in order to vote. These charges were expensive and served as a financial barrier used to prevent freedmen from voting.
Poll Tax
This court case legalized/created the separate but equal" law that legalized segregation.
Plessy v Ferguson
This reconstruction saw a period of advancement for African Americans, including creation of HBCUs, the of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
Presidential Reconstruction
Form of violence used White Supremacits to invoke fear and submission upon African Americans.
Lynching
The destruction as Black Wall Street was known as what event?
Tulsa Race Massacre
She was an investigative reporter who highlighted the violence and lynching occurring in the South.
Ida B. Wells
What social movement was created to highlight the social injustice against African Americans for over 400 years?
Black Lives Matter
What name did a newspaper article give the Tulsa Race Massacre, following the massacre?
"Little Africa on Fire"
What was the impact on African American office holders after the removal of Federal Troops?
Zero representation by 1901 in the South