Amendments and Laws
This Amendment officially freed all slaves
13th
This is a system where tenants worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops. (Glorified Slavery)
Sharecropping
This was the President during and right after the Civil War
Abe Lincoln
The removal of federal troops from the South marked the end of this time period.
Reconstruction
This crop was known as the king of crops leading up to the Civil War.
Cotton
This Amendment was created to provide equal rights for all persons
14th Amendment
This was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws
Segregate and disenfranchise African Americans
This African-American leader was a civil rights activist and educator who opened the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
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
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.
These laws were set up to limit the power that the newly freed slaves had in the South.
Jim Crow Laws
This group intimidated the newly freed slaves with violence.
The KKK
This African American activist believed that African Americans should demand civil rights and higher education immediately.
W.E.B. Du Bois
These Republicans took it to the next step to try to punish and control the South.
Radical Republicans
This is why many African Americans moved north during Reconstruction
Better jobs, less racist
This is what the 15th Amendment did
Gave African Americans the right to vote
These taxes were set up to try to dissuade southern blacks from voting
Poll taxes
This was the president who took over after Lincoln and was eventually voted to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
What happened as a result of the end of Reconstruction?
Southern political power returned (redeemers) as well as Jim Crow Laws
These were a couple of the challenges freed slaves had when moving north.
Moved to poor neighborhoods and still faced some discrimination
Which Reconstruction bill was this?
1) 50% of white males in the state must swear an oath of loyalty to the United States. 2) State’s constitution must abolish slavery. 3) Former Confederates are forbidden to hold public office.
The Wade-Davis bill
This 1896 court case said that segregation was legal as long as it was "separate but equal." (It never was.)
Plessy v. Ferguson
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
Explain SOCIAL reasons why newly freed slaves left the South
To escape Jim Crow Laws
Explain ECONOMIC reasons why newly freed slaves would want to leave the South.
Better wages up north, escape sharecropping