Ku Klux Klan
Whose goal was it to keep African Americans in the South powerless?
Klu Klux Klan
Northerner who moved to the South in order to make money
Carpetbagger
What was this time period called? To rebuild the South after the Civil War
Reconstruction
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote will not be denied."
15th Amendment
Laws passed in the South that limited the rights of free Black people.
Black Codes
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
Former Confederate soldiers who terrorized Black people across the South
A Southerner who supported the Union?
Scalawag
The right to vote is known as?
Suffrage
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States."
14th Amendment
The violent actions of a mob in Wilmington when they overthrew the City government
Insurrection
Wilmington Coup or Massacre of 1898.
What year did the Klu Klux Klan form?
1865
Who wanted the South to be punished for the Civil War?
Who thought President Lincoln waged war upon Southern rights and institutions?
Reason Booth gave for assassinating Lincoln
"Neither enslavement nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States."
13th Amendment
An era in which white supremacists took power across the South, segregation became the norm, and Southern states found ways to strip free Black citizens of their new civil rights?
Jim Crow
Who did the Klu Klux Klan target and attack in the 1800s?
Republican leaders and voters
African Americans
Helped former enslaved people with school, jobs, and housing
Freedmen's Bureau
The main goal of Reconstruction was to ...?
Reunify the nation after the Civil War, ensuring the integration of formerly enslaved people and the reintegration of the South into the Union
The agreement between the union and former Confederate states that Hayes would be U.S president in order to foster unity
1877 Compromise
Whose economic situation is described by "enslavement was replaced by cycle of poverty through sharecropping?"
Newly freed African American enslaved persons in the South
Where did the name ku klux come from?
The first two words of the organization’s name supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle.
The first Black US Senator
Hiram Revels
How did Reconstruction change the South?
Increased political power for African Americans, establishment of public education, and economic development efforts, but also faced strong resistance and ultimately saw many of these gains eroded.
It marked the end of Reconstruction, Union troops were pulled out of the South and Democrats agreed not to dispute the 1875 election results
Compromise of 1877
What are some methods that were used to keep the African Americans from voting? Name at least 2.
Literacy tests, poll taxes and intimidation by the Klu Klux Klan