Amendments
This Amendment emancipated enslaved people throughout the country.
13th Amendment
This group was organized to terrorize and intimidate African-American families in the South; know for distinctive uniform.
Klu Klux Klan
This was a payment a person must make in order to vote, often discouraged poor families from voting
Poll Tax
Andrew Johnson became President of the United States after this President was assassinated
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew's Johnson's plan for Reconstruction would have left major decisions on Civil Rights up to the individual ________
States
This Amendment guaranteed the right to vote no matter your race
15th Amendment
These were Northern Congressmen who wrote and passed the Reconstruction Amendments to ensure civil rights in the South
Radical Republicans
This was an impossible test given to African-American voters to keep them from voting
Literacy Test
The Reconstruction plan of this President called for healing the country quickly through not punishing the former Confederates in the South
One negative of the Radical Republicans plan for Reconstruction was that it was that it was extremely ___________ to keep Northern troops in the South
Expensive
This Amendment declared that anyone born in America is automatically a U.S. Citizen
14th Amendment
This group of people were Northern businessmen who took advantage of the economic instability of the South and bought farmland or former plantations
Carpetbaggers
This was a discriminatory law that was designed to take away the rights given to African-Americans in the Reconstruction Amendments
Black Code
Reconstruction lasted from 1865 until this year:
1877
This U.S. President was a Union general during the Civil War and was very popular in the North
Ulysses S. Grant
This clause of the 14th Amendment made race a protected class and prevented against discriminatory laws
Equal Protection Clause
These people were Southerners who opposed the Civil War and supported Republicans during Reconstruction
Scalawags
A law that is designed to segregate society into separate but equal parts is a:
Jim Crow Law
This was a Supreme Court Case that determined segregation was legal as long as conditions were "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
This was the system in which families would rent the land they farm on from a wealthier landowner
Sharecropping
This clause of the 14th Amendment stated that the government could not take away a person's life, liberty, or property without fair compensation
Due Process Clause
This was the government agency designed to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom. Gave support in education and healthcare
Freedmen's Bureau
This law said that you could voted if your ancestors could vote before the Civil War. Designed to exempt White voters from Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clause
This U.S. President ended Reconstruction by removing the last Northern soldiers from the South
Rutherford B. Hayes
This term describes being trapped in debt and having to use physical labor to pay it off
Debt Peonage