Reconstruction Era Laws
This was a southern law requiring African-Americans to pay a fee in order to vote.
What are Poll Taxes?
Legal separation of people according to their race.
What is segregation?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
The period lasted from 1865 through 1877.
What is Reconstruction?
His plan was called the Ten Percent Plan.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This President was elected in 1868 with the help of half a million black voters.
Ulysses S. Grant
Name these Southern laws requiring people to prove they could read before they could vote.
What are Literacy Test laws?
A term used for Northerners who traveled to live and work in the South after the Civil War.
What are Carpetbaggers?
Name the final of the Reconstruction Amendments.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
The process of bringing a formal charge against a president.
Impeach
His plan allowed former Confederate military and political leaders to ask for amnesty and pardons.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was the Democratic oppononent of Rutherford B. Hayes in the election of 1876.
Samuel Tilden
Hey there! We are southern laws that limited what Freedmen could do and where they could live and work.
What are Black Codes?
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation, and violence to take away African-Americans' rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This amendment granted freedmen citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This was the name for a newly freed African-American.
What is a Freedman?
Name of the theater where President Lincoln was shot.
Ford's Theater
This was the first African-American senator.
Who was Hiram Revels?
These laws were passed during Grant's presidency to combat/fight against violence against African Americans.
Enforcement Acts
An (often unfair) agreement to rent farmland in exchange for part of the crops grown on the land. In this arrangement, the renter owned the crops they planted and made their own decisions about them.
Sharecropping
The cubed root of 2197 is this number amendment.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This is another word for a government pardon
Amnesty
This was the final state to rejoin the Union.
What is South Carolina?
The Compromise of 1877 made him President.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This law allowed a person to vote if his older family members could vote before the Civil War.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Southerners who supported Reconstruction were called this name.
What are scalawags?
In roman numerals, if you subtract LXXXVI from C, what number amendment remains?
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This was a group of politicians who wanted to punish the South and protect the rights of Freedmen after the Civil War.
What are Radical Republicans?
This Supreme Court ruling established the south's "separate but equal" doctrine.
Plessy V. Ferguson
This person was from Pennsylvania and was the leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives. He suggested breaking up large plantations and distributing the land to Freedmen.
Thaddeus Stevens