The white southern men who owned slaves during the Civil War
Who are former plantation owners?
100
A secret group created in the South during Reconstruction that terrorized and attacked African Americans
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
A test that people had to take and pass in order to be able to vote
What is a literacy test?
100
This ended slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
Laws that were passed in the South to segregate or separate blacks and whites
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
200
A person who went from the North to the South during Reconstruction looking for personal economic or political gain
What is a carpetbagger?
200
poor, broken down, messed up furniture, bad materials, lack of resources, far away. All these describe the challenge that dealt with what?
What is education and schools?
200
A law that required people to pay in order to vote
What is a poll tax?
200
This gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
Name 3 examples of places that were segregated
What are schools, buses, theaters, libraries, water fountains, bathrooms, telephone booths, restaurants etc
300
The president who got impeached because he overstepped his power as president and fired one of his secretaries.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
a system of farming where the worker gives half the crop to the owner
What is sharecropping?
300
A law that prevented African Americans from voting because their grandfathers, who had been slaves, had not been allowed to vote.
What is the grandfather clause?
300
A group established by the government to help former slaves throughout the South by setting up schools and hospitals and giving them clothes and food
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
The court case that ruled that separate was equal and made segregation legal
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
The President whose administration was marked by scandal leading to weakening the power of the Republicans and the end of Reconstruction
Who is President Grant?
400
During Reconstruction former slaves got paid ___________ for their work on the plantations
What is low wages?
400
A law that gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
This gave equal rights to people and said that no state can deny equal protection of the law to any person
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
The court case that ruled that separate was NOT equal
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
500
An African American journalist in the South who wrote against lynching
Who is Ida B. Wells?
500
During Reconstruction African Americans were not allowed to own ___________. This upset them because they felt they deserved it since they worked on it for so many years.
What is land?
500
He was president when the 15th Amendment was passed
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
Reconstruction helped put the nation back together and ___________ the Northern and Southern states
What is reunited?
500
The caption of the political cartoon that describes the slow process of ending segregation in public schools