Sharecropping
Amendments, Laws, & Court Cases
VIPs
Southern Reactions to Reconstruction
Vocab that I couldn't fit anywhere else!
100
The Middle Age practice that sharecropping seemed to be similar to.
What is the feudal manor?
100
Banned slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
He was arrested for not sitting in the "colored section" of a Louisiana train car.
Who was Homer Plessy?
100
This racist group formed after the Civil War in an attempt to prevent blacks from exercising any of their new freedoms.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
100
Define impeachment.
What is bringing an elected official up on charges?
200
The amount of land and type of animal promised to freed slaves.
What is "40 acres and a mule"?
200
Name of written laws that prohibited freed blacks from enjoying their new freedoms.
What were "black codes"?
200
He wanted a quick time of readmitting southern states with his "Ten Percent Plan".
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
These groups of Northerners tried to take advantage of southern poverty by trading family heirlooms for money.
What were carpetbaggers?
200
The mixing of races in public facilities is also known as.....
What is integration (or desegregation)?
300
Name of those freed slaves who decided to move out west after the Civil War.
What is an Exoduster?
300
Two parts of the 14th Amendment. First gave African Americans born in the USA ___________. Second part said that all citizens would have "_______ protection under the law:.
What is "citizenship" and "equal"?
300
He helped purchase Alaska in 1867.
Who is William Seward?
300
Read this. Take a test on it. Then, you can vote.
What is a literacy test?
300
Southerners who were seen as traitors because they cooperated with northerners during Reconstruction.
What is a scalawag?
400
Nickname of African American soldiers who fought Native Americans after the Civil War.
Who were the "buffalo soldiers"?
400
15th Amendment gave ______ to ______.
What is "suffrage" to "black men"?
400
His quote "The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again." helped start the healing process at the end of the Civil War.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
400
Prove that grandpa voted in the last presidential election, and we'll let you vote.
What is a grandfather clause?
400
When the military takes over the role of government in a society.
What is martial law?
500
Describe the "Sharecropper's Cycle of Poverty".
Slaves are freed, but have no where to go. Former owners allow them to work on their plantations. Sharecroppers buy tools, seed, clothing, and food from owners. Owe more and more to owners. Can't possibly raise enough money from crops to be able to leave. Debt is passed on to next generation.
500
Phrase in the Plessy decision that allowed segregation to spread throughout the entire nation.
What is "separate but equal"?
500
By promising to remove federal troops from the South, HE was able to secure the presidency in 1876.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
Tell my why literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were so effective in keeping African Americans from voting.
Literacy tests were effective since most slaves could not read or write. Poll taxes worked because slaves had no money or owed their owners money as sharecroppers. Grandfather clauses kept voters away since no one's grandfather was free during the last presidential election.
500
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
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