Laws & Legislation
It made slavery unconstitutional, except in the form of punishment for crimes.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This political party ran on a platform of male suffrage, changing the South, and protections for African Americans. Grant and Lincoln belonged to it.
What is the Republican Party?
Laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers.
What are Black Codes?
The president Johnson was VP to.
Who is President Lincoln?
18th President of the United States, a supporter of the Radical Republicans and won his first election in 1868.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
No state shall forbid any citizen suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
It provided critical support in the form of food, money, education, and housing to former enslaved people and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
A terror organization of white southerners who engaged in racial and political violence.
What is the KKK?
Johnson continuously vetoed bills proposed by this group of politicians.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Civil rights activist who bought a newspaper and named it Free Speech.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Equal protection under the law for all US born citizens.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This political party ran a platform on States Rights and pro-white ideas.
What is the Democratic Party?
A fictional character who embodied the racist ideologies of white southerners and harmful stereotypes against African Americans.
Who is Jim Crow?
The number president Johnson was.
What is the 17th President?
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
These laws made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote. Signed 1870 & 1871.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
This deal effectively ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
A success of Reconstruction, it was tax-funded and led primarily by women.
What is public education?
The year which Johnson took the office.
What is 1865?
Harvard graduate who argued for full and immediate African American citizenship.
This law allowed African Americans to use public services, such as trains, hotels, and public facilities.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
The first civil rights law in US History, it stated that you were a US citizen if you were born in the US.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This plan of Lincoln's required a small portion of voters in the south to swear loyalty to the union.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
The law that Andrew Johnson broke by firing Edwin Stanton.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
Civil rights activist who argued African Americans should "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps."
Who is Booker T. Washington?