Reconstruction
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This business practice allows one company to control an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
Laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War that restricted the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This amendment protected voting rights regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Invented by Henry Ford, this innovation sped up mass production.
What is the assembly line?
This group of politicians wanted stricter Reconstruction and more protections for African Americans.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The organization that provided education, food, and medical care to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This 1882 law banned immigration from a specific nationality for the first time.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This compromise ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Name one method used to prevent African Americans from voting after Reconstruction.
What is a literacy test, poll tax, or grandfather clause?
Name one push factor that caused Europeans to leave their home countries.
What is war, famine, poverty, or persecution?
This Supreme Court case created the rule of “separate but equal,” making segregation legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This system of farming kept many freed people in poverty by forcing them into debt.
What is sharecropping?
This act attempted to force Indigenous people to assimilate by dividing up tribal land.
What is the Dawes Act?