Vocab
Also known as the Ku Klux Klan Acts
What are the Enforcement Acts
Required 10% of a states voters to swear an oath of loyalty to the union
What is Lincolns Ten Percent Plan
Formed in Tennessee in 1866. Goal was to terrorize African Americans and keep them from exercising their rights
Who is the KKK
Officially ended Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877
Separate but Equal
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
Process of bringing people together of different races, religions and social classes
What is Integration
Guaranteed equality under the law to all citizens
What is the 14th Amendment
What did General William Sherman say was needed in order to support a family after the war?
What is 40 acres and mule
Winner of the election of 1876
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
Bought a newspaper and named it "Free Speech"
Who is Ida B. Wells
Negative term for northerners who moved south after the Civil War
What is Carpetbagger
Goal was to provide food, clothing, education and healthcare to both African American and white refugees in the south
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
Landowner dictated the crop the farmer grew and passed the high interest rate onto the farmer
What is Share-Cropping
Gave African Americans the rights to ride trains and use public facilities
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875
Where did most African American families go during reconstruction?
What is they stayed in rural areas
Negative term for a southern white who supported the Republican party after the war
What is Scalawag
Forbid any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th Amendment
2 things that African Americans were able to do after the war
What is legally marry, build their own homes, choose where they work and vote
Rules that kept African Americans and Whites segregated
What are the Jim Crow Laws
Who led the Tuskegee Institution?
Who is Booker T. Washington
Term for white southerner who returned to political power after 1870
What is Redemmer
Required former Confederates with property of worth more than $20,000 to obtain a presidential pardon in order to vote
What is Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
Tenants paid the landowner in cash and not a percentage of their crop.
What is Tenant-Farming
3 ways the states limited voting rights for African Americans
What are poll taxes, literacy tests and the grandfather clause
What action led directly to President Johnson's impeachment?
What is firing a cabinet member without Senate approval