Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This compromise ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This secret society was founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Congress passed these laws in 1870–1871 to protect Black voters.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
This term described the Southern plan to modernize and industrialize after the Civil War.
What is the New South?
This amendment made African Americans citizens of the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Republican became president after the disputed election of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The KKK used violence and intimidation mainly against these two groups.
Who are African Americans and white Republicans?
These acts made it illegal to interfere with a citizen’s right to do this.
What is vote?
This Southern journalist strongly promoted the idea of the New South.
Who is Henry Grady?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Democratic candidate won the popular vote in the election of 1876 but did not become president.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
Members of the KKK often referred to themselves by this medieval title.
What are Knights?
These laws specifically targeted this white supremacist organization.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The New South promoted growth in this sector instead of relying only on agriculture.
What is industry?
These three amendments passed after the Civil War are known collectively by this name.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
As part of the Compromise of 1877, Republicans agreed to remove these from the Southern states.
What are federal troops?
The KKK used disguises such as robes and masks mainly for this reason.
What is hiding their identity while intimidating people?
One of the laws in this set was commonly called this act.
What is the Ku Klux Klan Act?
Improving this system was important to New South leaders to move goods and products.
What is transportation (railroads)?
The main goal of these amendments was to expand freedom and rights for this group of people.
Who are formerly enslaved African Americans?
When federal troops left the South, this political party quickly lost power there.
What is the Republican Party?
The KKK claimed to support this nationalist slogan also used later in American politics.
What is “America First”?
One tactic outlawed by the Ku Klux Klan Act was wearing these to threaten voters.
What are disguises or masks?
The New South hoped to create a more self-sufficient Southern economy using this economic system.
What is capitalism?