Early Reconstruction
What was the main goal of Reconstruction?
To readmit the former Confederate states into the Union/Rebuild the country from the war.
A terrorist organization created to restore white supremacy by terrorizing African Americans in society.
Ku Klux Klan
This amendment outlawed slavery.
13th
This is the legal separation of the races in public places.
Segregation
A system used on southern farms in which farmers worked on land owned by someone else in return for a small share of the crops.
Sharecropping
During the Reconstruction Era, one reason for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was to
prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights.
This amendment gave African Americans the right of citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th
What event prevented Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan from succeeding?
He was assassinated
This organization was created by Abraham Lincoln during Reconstruction to help African Americans from the transition from slavery to freedom.
Freedmen's Bureau
Poll taxes, literacy tests and the grandfather clause were devices used to
deny African Americans the right to vote
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th
This Supreme Court Case ruled that segregation was legal as long as the facilities were “separate but equal”.
Plessy v Ferguson
What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?
It kept formerly enslaved persons in debt slavery.
What was the significance of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
It led southern states to increase segregation and inequality in the south.
This was the name for the time period between 1876-1965 when segregation was enforced.
Jim Crow Era
Why did many African Americans migrate north during and after Reconstruction?
to escape racial terrorism and discrimination in the south
Which political group wanted the federal government to force change in the South?
Radical Republicans
Why was the KKK able to persist and continue functioning?
A weak and slow government response (Plessy v Ferguson, Jim Crow, Black Codes)
Laws designed to restrict African American rights, such as not allowing them to own guns, assemble, testify, or speak freely.
Black Codes
This event ended Reconstruction in 1877
The Compromise of 1877/Election of Rutherford B. Hayes/Removal of Federal Troops