Reconstruction
Reconstruction began after the Civil War ended and lasted approximately this long.
What is a decade (or ten years)?
What are literacy tests?
What is boycotting?
This Amendment states that everyone born in the United States is a citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This idea told Southerners that the war was about states' rights, not slavery.
What is the "Lost Cause" myth?
This hate-filled group was founded during Reconstruction as part of Southerners' backlash against growing African American power.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This city was the site of the worst race massacre in US history.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
What is the Great Migration?
This Amendment states that all US citizens have the right to vote regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Though not a real person, this phrase describing Southern separation by race sounds like a name.
What is Jim Crow?
Southerners made up these two words for northerners who'd come south to assist with Reconstruction and southerners who sympathized with northerners.
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
This method of grading neighborhoods to control mortgage lending by race is now illegal, but it still affects our city's demographics today.
What is redlining?
This man, who was considered an "octoroon," sat in a white-only train car in hopes of challenging segregation laws.
Who is Homer Plessy?
This idea of separating races was legal as long as services offered were "equal" (even though they usually weren't).
What is segregation?
This woman spent her career documenting and writing about the injustices her people faced.
According to this compromise, Southern Democrats agreed to support Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president if he would end Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This system kept workers in debt while ensuring that landowners' land would continue to be farmed.
What is sharecropping?
This area was a concentration of Black wealth and culture before it was destroyed.
What is Black Wall Street? (or Greenwood)
This Supreme Court case allowed separation by race to continue for decades.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This man became the first US President to be impeached when he allowed Southerners to reenter Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
During Reconstruction, approximately this many African Americans were elected to public office.
What is hundreds? (And what is 16, to US Congress).
What is lynching?
What is, dug a hole in the road to trap the white school bus?
This law stated that if your ancestors had voted before 1865, you also could vote (effectively ensuring that all white people could vote without passing any other tests).
What is the grandfather clause?
This man started the KKK.
Who is Nathan Bedford Forrest?