Vocabulary
Is a part of a law that allows someone to be excused from the law.
What is a grandfather clauses?
He started the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and succeeded in helping many Africans American to get a good education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
They had to carry special passes when they traveled, and could only work as farmers or house servants.
Who were the freedmen?
These 3 things were required that made it impossible for Africans Americans to vote.
What were the literacy test, grandfather clauses and poll taxes?
This law protect the rights of people and allow them to vote while they could get the same equal treatment whatever they look like.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
A member of a government who wanted to punish the South for starting the Civil War.
What is Radical Republican?
He was an honest senator who cared about helping different groups of Americans.
Who is Blanche Bruce?
They believe that the south was to blame for the war and should be punished.
What is Radical Republicans?
It was one of the amendment add to the Constitution during the Reconstruction that ended slavery.
What is 13 Amendment?
Governments throughout the South also began to pass__________laws called______ ________ ______
1- segregation.
2- Jim Crow Laws.
It means to be part in activities to gain support for a cause might be getting a person elected or keeping a law from being passed.
What is to campaign?
H e was accused of committing crimes and was put on trial and was accused of not caring out the Reconstruction plan.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These 3 groups were very helpful and contributed a lot during the Reconstruction.
Who were the carpetbaggers, scalawags, and African Americans?
1) State in the South that were created under _______________ plan or ____________ were not recognized by _____________. The South was ruled by _______________.
2) All Southern states had to ratify the ___________ ____________ before they join they could rejoin the Union.
1) a) Lincoln ; b)Johnson ; c) Congress ; d) Federal Troops
2) a) Fourteenth Amendment
"It is called the Equal Rights Amendment" and said that all people born in the USA were citizens.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
It was a secret organization started by Southern after the Civil War and killed African American to stop them from using the Right they had won.
What is KU Klux Klan ?
He was the winner of the election after Democrats and Republicans worked out a compromise.
Who is Rutherford Hayes?
These laws treated African American if they were still enslaved.
What are Black Codes?
The white people in the south did these things to try to keep black people second class citizen.
What were black codes-laws, Klu Klux Klan and Confederates in charge?
But the_________ , ________and_______gave the nation better tools for reaching in goal.
1-Thirteenth.
2- Fourteenth.
3- Fifteenth.
Is a lawful way to give everyone the same rights and treatments.
What is due Process?
During his presidency, the Fifteenth Amendment became part of the Constitution in 1970.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Because they didn't have money to buy their land they rented farms and gave more than half of theirs crops. They remained very poor.
Who were the sharecroppers?
During the Reconstruction these 3 amendments were added to the Constitution. Southern states had to agree to these amendments to be part of the United States again.
What were the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments?
It said that voting rights is allowed for all races.
What is the Fifteen Amendment?