Amendments and Laws
Southern Resistance
Reconstruction Peeps
Rando Recon
Hodgepodge
100
This Amendment freed the slaves
13th
100
These are a few ways that the South restricted the rights of African Americans
Black Codes, poll taxes, and literacy tests
100
This is how Lincoln wanted to reintegrate the Southern States back into the Union
Quickly and with leniency
100
The Freedman’s Bureau did not just set up elementary schools; they also set these up
Historically Black colleges and universities
100
This crop was known as the king of crops leading up to the Civil War.
Cotton
200
This Amendment was created to provide equal rights for all persons
14th Amendment
200
This method was how the Southern Land Owners kept the Free Black men trapped with Sharecropping
They often bought supplies on credit and owed part of their crop to the landowner
200
This African-American leader was a civil rights activist and educator who opened the Tuskegee Institute. He believed in progress through self-sufficiency and practical skills
Booker T. Washington
200
This was the president who took office with the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
200
Which Economy does this chart represent?
Southern Economy after the Civil War
300
This was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws
Segregate and disenfranchise African Americans
300
This 1896 court case said that segregation was legal as long as it was "separate but equal." (It never was.)
Plessy v. Ferguson
300
This African American activist believed that African Americans should demand civil rights and higher education immediately.
W.E.B. Du Bois
300
This place helped get newly freed slaves set up in new schools, as well as to help formerly enslaved people adjust to life after slavery
Freedman’s Bureau
300
What happened to the South's economy after the Civil War?
It got devastated with no slavery, and the South struggled to keep up with the North.
400
This group of people gained constitutional protection to vote under the 15th Amendment
African American men
400
These are the "laws" the South set up once Reconstruction ended
Jim Crow Laws
400
This was the leader of the Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
400
This was the main difference between the Wade-Davis Bill and Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
Lincoln was much more lenient, where only 10% of Southerners had to agree to rejoin, whereas Wade-Davis was harsher on the South, and protected the former slaves more
400
What is the message of this political cartoon? (Look at the people at the dinner)
It includes everyone at the dinner table, since they are all equal
500
Why did the Radical Republicans criticize Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
They believed his plan gave too little protection to freed African Americans and former Confederates too much power.
500
This was the main goal of the KKK during Reconstruction
To intimidate and violently oppress African Americans
500
This man was known as the "Peanut man" as he discovered a lot of uses for peanuts. He was also selected to be a professor at the Tuskegee Institute.
George Washington Carver
500
This event marked the end of Reconstruction in the South (Compromise of 1877)
The federal troops are being removed
500
These were a couple of the challenges freed slaves had when moving north.
Moved to poor neighborhoods and still faced some discrimination