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100
Frederick Douglass
Who was a run away slave and abolitionist?
100
Ford's Theatre
Where was Prersident Lincoln assassinated?
100
Fifteenth Amendment
Which amendment guaranteed African-Americans the right to vote?
100
crop-lien system
What is the agreement by sharecroppers to give crops to merchants in exchange for supplies in credit?
100
Plessy v. Ferguson
Which U. S. Supreme Court case determined seperate but equal did not violate the 14th Amendment?
200
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was a famous Union general and President of the United States?
200
Tennessee
What was the only Confederate state that was not part of a military district?
200
Enforcement Acts
What laws were created to combat terrorism in the South with military force?
200
scalawag
What is another name for a southern scoundrel?
200
poll taxes & literacy tests
What are two methods used for depriving African-Americans of the right to vote?
300
Rutherford B. Hayes
Who was the President of the United States that ended Reconstruction?
300
Juneteenth
What is another name for Emancipation Day?
300
Civil Rights Act of 1875
What law prevented businesses serving the public from discriminating against African-Americans?
300
Freedmen's Bureau
What agency was established by Congress to help Southerns left homeless & hungary after the civil war?
300
amnesty
What is an offical pardon issused by the government?
400
Ida B. Wells
Who was the African-American leader who believed that former slaves should protest unfair treatment?
400
Pennsylvania
What is the home state of Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens?
400
Compromise of 1877
What agreement ended Reconstruction in the South after the civil war?
400
Panic of 1873
What was the name of the economic depression in the 1870s?
400
Reconstruction
What is the term used for describing the rebuilding of the South after the civil war?
500
Madame C. J. Walker
Who was the first woman in the U.S. to become a millionaire by developing a hair conditioner?
500
Midwest
What region of the United States did Exodusters seek a better life?
500
Jim Crow Laws
What laws were intended to segregate African-Americans from whites in the South?
500
Redeemers
Who were Democratic supporters of white controlled governments in the South during the 1870s?
500
United States Senate
Which branch of the United States Congress failed to impeach President Johnson after the civil war?