These were reading tests that needed to be passed in order to have the right to vote.
What are literacy tests?
100
The system of farming where one person farms and pays rent to the landowner by giving him a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
100
Which President wanted to quickly reunite the country after the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
These southern laws took citizenship rights away from African Americans.
What were the Black Codes?
200
These were payments that needed to be made in order to vote.
What were poll taxes?
200
The act that provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
200
Who assassinated President Lincoln in Ford Theater?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
300
Define abolish
What is to get rid of, eliminate, or stop?
300
These state and local laws enforced segregation.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
300
Define Grandfather Clause and explain why it was in place.
What is in order to vote your grandfather must have voted. This blocked newly freed slaves from voting.
300
The agency that provided relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
300
Which President's plan wanted to punish former Confederate officers?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
This amendment said that African American men were citizens if they were born in the USA.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
Name one reason segregation is not "separate and equal"
Answers will vary
400
They wore pointed white hoods while they beat and hanged African Americans.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
To bring criminal charges against a public official.
What is impeachment?
400
Define scalawag
What is a white southerner who supported the Reconstruction movement?
500
The group that wanted the federal government to force change in the South.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
500
The court case that set "separate but equal" law. It involved a black man who bought a first class ticket on a train but was denied access to the "whites only" section.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!
Describe each amendment using the clues below!
13th - a______h s________y
14th - c_______________
15th - v_____________
What is 13th - abolish slavery, 14th - citizenship, 15th voting
500
This compromise accepted Rutherford Hayes as President in return for removing all the military troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
Define carpetbagger.
What is a white Northerner who came to the southern states to open schools and businesses to help the African Americans?