Progress
The very first thing that black folks were tasked with doing after emancipation was to
Choose a surname/last name
Southern states implemented these in an attempt to restrict black men's right to vote (2 things)
Poll taxes and literacy tests
This Amendment banned slavery except as punishment for a crime
13th
The women's suffrage movement originated from which previous civil rights movement?
Abolition movement
The right to vote
Suffrage
This group comprised of Federal Soldiers who were sent to the south to offer black people protection from racial violence
Freedmans Bureau
This famous hate group was founded during reconstruction and violently terrorized black communities
Ku Klux Klan
Fearful that black people were gaining rights. Angry white southern legislatures passed these to restrict the rights of black people
Black codes
Frances Watkins Harper first realized that she was legally a second class citizen as a women when this happened to her
A debt collector seized all of her assets following her husband's death
The era in the United States following the Civil War when the country was trying to put itself back together while figuring out what to do about freed black people
Reconstruction
In addition to protection, the Freedman's Bureau also helped black folks by.....(3 things)
Recognizing marriages
Reuniting Families
Securing Work Contracts
Black people were essentially sent back into slavery when they were forced to work as tenant farmers in exchange for room and board, otherwise known as
Sharecropping
This Amendment defined citizenship and granted all citizens equal protection under the law
14th Amendment
Why did the 15th Amendment cause a rift in the women's suffrage movement (looking for what the law actually says not how white women felt about it)
It only gave black men the right to vote
Bring (people or groups with particular characteristics or needs) into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution.
Integrate
What was Union General William S Sherman's plan for land distribution as laid out in Sherman's Field Order #15
Punish Confederates and reward freedpeoples by offering them large plots of land
How did Andrew Johnson deal with former Confederate leaders during Reconstruction?
Pardoned them and let them back into government
Black men got the right to vote from this Amendent
15th
White suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony did not support the 15th Amendment because they felt that...
"Educated" white women deserve the right to vote before "ignorant" black men
A provision in a law or contract that allows existing situations to continue to follow an old rule, while a new rule applies to future cases. The term originated from a series of voting laws in the South after the Civil War that prevented African Americans from voting.
Grandfather Clause
In the 1860s, black people did not hold any kind of political office. By the 1870s, which % of office holders in the south were black?
15%
Why did black folks feel abandoned by the Compromise of 1877?
They no longer had any protection from racial violence in the south
What was the Compromise of 1877
Stated that Rutherford B Hayes can be president only if the Federal Troops were removed from the south
What was the significance of Frances Watkins Harper using Harriet Tubman's mistreatment as an example in her speech?
To highlight how even national heroes like Harriet were treated poorly by racists
The state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.
Disenfranchisement