This Amendment states that no state could take a citizen's "life, liberty or property"
14th Amendment
True or False: Education expanded for African Americans during the Reconstruction Period
True
The black codes banned African Americans from owning or renting this, so they could not make a living
Farms
This is the name of the set of laws that were passed to control freed men and women.
Black codes
Lincolns Plan for Reconstruction was called what?
The Ten Percent Plan
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
15th Amendment
The Freedman's Bureau could do what to those who violated African American rights?
Prosecute
Under the black codes, African Americans who were arrested had to do what to pay off their fines?
Work unpaid on a plantation
Poll Tax
The Rival Plan to Lincoln's plan for reconstruction was called what?
The Wade-Davis Bill
This law gave African Americans full citizenship
Civil Rights Act of 1866
In this system, a landowner rented land, house & tools to a farmer. In return, the farmer shared a percentage of their crop with the landowner.
This was a secret society created to terrorize the African American community and prevent them from using their rights
Ku Klux Klan
This is when African Americans had to read and interpret a section of their state's constitution in order to vote
Literacy Test
Ford's Theater
This African American man was a Senator from Mississippi and started schools for freedmen.
Hiram Revels
This man was elected into the presidency as he earned most of the votes from Southern African Americans
This is the term for when African Americans were hung by mobs.
Jim Crow Laws
Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction was called what?
Restoration
____ African Americans worked in the House of Representatives during the Reconstruction Period.
16
This is the name of the government agency that was established to help former slaves by providing them with food, schools, land and transportation
The Freedmen's Bureau
What could plantation owners do with orphaned African Americans after the war?
Have them work as "unpaid apprentices"
The case Plessy v Ferguson said that segregated facilities had to be "________________ but ___________________"
separate, equal
What was the name of the law that Andrew Johnson was impeached for?
The Tenure of Office Act