Key people
This president was assassinated in 1865, beginning Reconstruction.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The war that ended in 1865 leading into Reconstruction.
What is the Civil War?
This amendment ended slavery.
The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
Result of Reconstruction amendments on citizenship.
What is expanded rights for African Americans?
He became president after Lincoln and conflicted with Congress over Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
System created to help enslaved people with food, education, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Name for Southern states that left the Union during the Civil War.
What is the Conferdency?
Practice used to keep African Americans from voting even with the 15th Amendment.
What are poll taxes?
Union general who led Reconstruction efforts in the South.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The agreement that ended Reconstruction in 1877
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This amendment granted Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Wanted to punish the South, and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
Outcome of federal troops leaving the South.
What is the end of Reconstruction protections?
This enslaved abolitionist helped recruit Black soldiers and pushed for equal rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Secret organization that used violence to change Reconstruction and African American rights.
What is the KKK?
Law that tried to hurantee equal access to public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
Many former slaves work plantation, like slavery.
What is sharecropping?
Segregation of races and states find ways to deny rights to Black people.
What is Jim Crow?
Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress during Reconstruction.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
Supreme Court case that weakened civil rights protections by allowing "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Laws passed to protect African American voting rights and limit KKK violence.
What are Enforcement Acts?
Laws passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
Main goal of Reconstruction overall.
What is to reunite and rebuild the United States after the Civil War?