Legislation
This amendment abolished slavery — unless the person was convicted of a crime.
13th Amendment
A system where freedpeople worked land in exchange for a share of the crops, often leading to debt.
Sharecropping
Name three rights Black Americans gained during Reconstruction
freedom from slavery, citizenship, voting
This group used terror to suppress Black political participation and education.
Ku Klux Klan
Which event officially ended Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
These state-level laws aimed to restrict the rights and movements of Black Americans after the Civil War.
Black Codes
A labor system that leased out imprisoned Black men to private companies.
Convict Lease System
Freedmen's Bureau
These white Democrats sought to restore White Supremacy through the Mississippi Plan
Redeemers
The Compromise of 1877 allowed which political party to take back control of the South?
Congress criticized this President for vetoing the Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights legislation.
Andrew Johnson
This clause in the 13th Amendment enabled forced labor if someone had done this.
Committed a crime
This city in North Carolina was the home of a large African American middle class
Wilmington
Poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause
What compromise occurred with the Compromise of 1877?
Democrats gave the Presidency to the Republicans so Union troops would leave the South