Amendments
What were the 3 significant amendments passed during reconstruction?
What is the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?
What is disenfranchisement?
What is depriving someone of the right to vote?
What are the two types of Reconstruction?
What is presidential reconstruction and radical reconstruction
What organization assisted newly freed slaves with education, healthcare, food and more?
What is the Freedman's Bureau
A system was created that left African Americans economically dependent on white landowners and in a cycle of poverty.
What is sharecropping?
Which amendment abolished slavery throughout the entire United States?
What is the 13th amendment?
How many laws were put in place to disenfranchise African Americans?
What is three?
Which presidents led Presidential Reconstruction and what was the main goal of presidential reconstruction?
Who is Lincoln and Johnson and to quickly reunite the country
What is one way the Freedman's Bureau helped African Americans?
What is providing African Americans with educations, jobs or healthcare
A Supreme Court case that said "separate but equal" did not violate the 14th Amendment
What is Plessy v.Ferguson?
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
What were two methods of disenfranchisement during Reconstruction?
What are the poll tax and the literacy test?
What was the goal of Radical Reconstruction and which political party led it?
What is to give African American rights after slavery and who are the republicans?
What were two differences between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington?
Du Bois supported college and demanded full equality immediately. Washington supported vocational education, economic growth, and slow progress towards freedom.
Laws that separated/segregated public facilities based on race
What are Jim Crow laws?
What is the 14th amendment?
All people born in the United States are citizens and have equal protection under the law no matter their race. (Gave African Americans citizenship)
What was the purpose of the grandfather clause?
It was created to help white people who did not know how to read and write, and harm African Americans since their grandfathers were slaves.
The black codes were passed in the south to
Take away/ deny equal rights for African Americans.
Who benefitted from sharecropping?
Who are white landowners?
Which amendment did Plessy think the separate car act was violating?
What is the 14th Amendment?
Say the amendments in this order Citizenship, Vote and Abolish.
14th, 15th and 13th
Which amendment did disenfranchisement laws undermine?
What is the 15th amendment?
After reconstruction, the North stopped supporting African Americans, and the South created.
What are Jim Crow Laws
What did the military reconstruction act do?
It separated the former Confederate states into 5 districts and governed them to stop them from mistreating newly freed slaves
Who were the KKK, what did they do, and how did they accomplish their goals?
What is a white supremacist organization that stopped African Americans from gaining equal rights, voting, serving in the government, etc, by using violence?