Reconstruction Era Laws
This was a southern law requiring African-Americans to pay a fee in order to vote.
What are Poll Taxes?
Legal separation of people according to their race.
What is segregation?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
The period lasted from 1865 through 1877.
What is Reconstruction?
His plan was called the Ten Percent Plan.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson's attempt to fire this person from his job resulted in Johnson's impeachment.
Who is Edwin Stanton?
Name these Southern laws requiring people to prove they could read before they could vote.
What are Literacy Test laws?
A term used for Northerners who traveled to live and work in the South after the Civil War.
What are Carpetbaggers?
Name the final of the Reconstruction Amendments.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
The acts that led to ten southern states being divided into five military districts run by generals.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
(Military Reconstruction Act)
His plan allowed former Confederate military and political leaders to ask for amnesty and pardons.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This male former slave fought for all people to have full, equal legal rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Hey there! We are southern laws that limited what Freedmen could do and where they could live and work.
What are Black Codes?
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation, and violence to take away African-Americans' rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This amendment granted freedmen citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This was the name for a newly freed African-American.
What is a Freedman?
Denoted in bowling as "X", one of these occurred in 1877.
What is a strike?
This was the first African-American senator.
Who was Hiram Revels?
This law allowed the Federal government to punish people who tried to take away freedmen's rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan Act?
(Force Acts)
An (often unfair) agreement to rent farmland in exchange for part of the crops grown on the land. In this arrangement, the renter owned the crops they planted and made their own decisions about them.
What is tenant farming?
The cubed root of 2197 is this number amendment.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
State the names and the years of these cumulative acts that President Johnson vetoed.
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1866 and 1867?
(Civil Rights Act of 1866 and 1867)
Unwilling to break character, this was the final state to rejoin the Union.
What is the Great State of South Carolina?
The Compromise of 1877 made him President.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Respect your elders! This law allowed a person to vote if his older family members could vote before the Civil War.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Southerners who supported Reconstruction were called this name.
What are scalawags?
In roman numerals, if you subtract LXXXVI from C, what number amendment remains?
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This was a group of politicians who wanted to punish the South and protect the rights of Freedmen after the Civil War.
What are Radical Republicans?
He proposed a law to take away land in the South and give it to freedmen in forty acre farms.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
He was the first African-American to serve as governor of a state.
Who is Pinckney B.S. Pinchback?