The Amendments
This amendment legally forbade slavery in the United States when adopted in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This President's lenient policies for former Confederate states fractured his relationship with Congress and culminated in his impeachment.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
After the Civil War, the Southern agricultural economy replaced enslaved labor with this system where owners provided land for a portion of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
These laws were passed in the South during Reconstruction specifically to limit the opportunities for African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This agency was created to provide food, medical care, manage property, and establish schools for formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The era of Reconstruction encompasses the years following the Civil War from 1865 until this year.
What is 1877?
Ratified in 1868, this amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. and guaranteed equal rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Northerners who went to the South and became involved in new state politics, named for the luggage they carried.
What are carpetbaggers?
In addition to sharecropping, formerly enslaved people became these types of farmers, paying rent to farm a plot of land.
What are tenant farmers?
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the Southern states into this many military districts.
What is 5?
This secret society was formed to terrorize African Americans, white Republicans, and teachers to undermine Republican rule.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The time period of Reconstruction was characterized by the rebuilding of the United States and this action regarding Confederate states.
What is readmission to the Union?
This amendment, ratified in 1870, granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Southerners who worked with the Republicans and were seen as traitors by some other Southerners.
What are scalawags?
Unscrupulous landlords kept sharecroppers and tenant farmers in a cycle of this by charging high interest rates and manipulating prices.
What is debt?
Congress proposed the 14th Amendment after overriding President Johnson's veto of this 1866 legislation extending citizenship.
What is the Civil Rights Bill?
Although most people were not given what was promised, the Freedmen's Bureau did successfully build over 1,000 of these.
What are schools?
Reconstruction during the presidency of Andrew Johnson was characterized by this attitude toward former Confederate states.
What is leniency?
The 14th and 15th Amendments disappointed advocates for this group because they did not extend the right to vote based on gender.
What are women / women's rights advocates?
This group of Northern congressmen supported the Reconstruction Act and frequently clashed with President Andrew Johnson.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Under the 13th Amendment, enslaved people were freed, but slaveholders did not receive this type of financial payment.
What is compensation?
Post-Reconstruction laws passed to bypass the 14th and 15th amendments and legally discriminate against African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Because of the Reconstruction Act, Confederate leaders were disqualified from holding these types of positions.
What are federal or state political positions?
The passage of the Reconstruction Act of 1867 ushered in this specific, intense period of Reconstruction.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
Southern states instituted literacy tests, poll taxes, and these 'clauses' to bypass the 15th Amendment and restrict voting.
What are grandfather clauses?
The Compromise of 1877 marked the end of Reconstruction by providing for the certification of this man as President.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Many African-Americans migrated to midwestern and western states hoping to own farmland through this opportunity.
What is a homestead?
The Military Reconstruction Act required seceded states to ratify the 14th Amendment as a condition for this action.
What is readmission into the Union?
The success of providing political rights to African Americans elicited reactionary measures in the South including violence and this tactic to keep them from voting.
What is intimidation?
After Reconstruction ended, this political party controlled southern politics for over 100 years.
What is the Democratic Party?