Leaders Of the Era
This Leader death impacted the Reconstruction's success
Abraham Lincoln
This Amendment ended slavery
13th
Free black men
Freedmens
Poll Tax
Below North Carolina the first State to separate from the US
South Carolina
The first president to be Impeached
Andrew Johnson
This Amendment gave citizenship to people born in the US
14th
This group wanted to punish the south harshly and give rights to black citizens
Radial Republicans
Test you had to pass in order to vote
Literacy test
The birth place of the KKK
Tennessee
The civil war hero who became President in 1868
Ulysses Grant
This amendment made it illegal to deny voting rights due to race, color
15th
Black Americans were voted into these roles in their communities
Mayors and Judges
Restrictive and discriminatory laws passed in the south
Black codes
Sharing a name of a famous river this southern state is home to the first black senator
Mississippi
First Black senator
Hiram Reveis
The year Reconstruction ended
1877
A proposal to help Black Americans get land after the civil war that was
40 acres and a mule
Forced separation of Races
Segregation
white supremacist group made up of former Confederate war vets
The Ku Klux Klan
This person became president after the Great Comprise of 1877
Rutherford B Hayes
Reconstruction latest
12 years
A bill that would gave rights to black men but was never passed
Civil right bill
A form of informal punishment that involves hanging someone usually from a tree
Lynching
Court Case that gave birth to Jim Crow
Plessy V Ferguson