Black Codes
The name of the terrorist organization conceived during the Reconstruction Era in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This was the Constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
1st U.S. President in American history to have ever been impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This term refers to former slaves who have been released from slavery.
What is freedmen?
This nickname was given to Black Codes in the South after an infamous minstrel show character.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This Constitutional amendment prevented the restriction of voting rights based on race, ethnicity, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This person's Reconstruction Plan allowed former Confederates to vote and hold office.
What was Andrew Johnson's Plan?
He was elected president of the United States during the Reconstruction Era after serving as a Civil War general. His presidency was characterized by corruption.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This term means a government pardon.
What is amnesty?
This was the most common profession among Black occupants of Southern states during the Reconstruction Era that turned out to be another form of oppression.
What is sharecropping?
This Constitutional amendment re-defined citizenship in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This group created a Reconstruction Act that required southern states to disband their state governments and write new constitutions, and must also allow African Americans to vote.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
He was president of the United States at the end of Reconstruction.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
This term means to separate people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
What is segregation?
This is the name of an exam given to freedmen who wanted to vote in the South during the Reconstruction Era. It was designed to be very difficult to pass.
What was a literacy test?
This deal was negotiated between Republicans and Democrats that ended Reconstruction in exchange for disputed votes being given to Rutherford B. Hayes.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This Reconstruction Plan was a bill proposed by two Congressmen that was harsher on southern states than the Ten Percent Plan.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
These were northerners who moved South during the Reconstruction Era.
Who were carpetbaggers?
This loophole allowed white southerners to vote if they had an ancestor who had previously voted in an election.
What is a grandfather clause?
This was an additional charge given to freedmen who attempted to vote during the Reconstruction Era. Many couldn't afford to pay it.
What was a poll tax?
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal as long as treatment for both Blacks and Whites was equal.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This Act set up military districts in the South.
What is the Reconstruction Act?
These were southerners that supported Republicans during the Reconstruction Era.
Who were scalawags?
This is the name of the government agency that established educational opportunities and re-connected families during the Reconstruction Era.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?