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Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
Southern Reconstruction
End of Reconstruction
Reconstruction Reversed
100
This is the term used to describe the period of time in which Southern states were rebuilt and accepted back into the Union.
What is reconstruction?
100

This political party held power during Congressional Reconstruction.

What is the Republican Party?

100
The name given to Northerners who moved to the South after the war?
Who are carpetbaggers?
100
This all-white, secret society used terror methods to threaten black voters and used extreme forms of violence, even murder, to exercise control.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
100
After Reconstruction, southerners had to pay for this luxury, which had previously been public, excluding many African Americans from accessing it.
What is education?
200
After Pres. Lincoln was assassinated, this man had the first opportunity to complete Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200

This change to the Constitution granted citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. and guaranteed that all citizens would receive equal protection of the law. (The Equal Rights Amendment)

What is the fourteenth (14th) amendment?

200
The name given to white Southerners who voted Republican. They were seen as traitors by Southern Democrats.
Who are scalawags?
200
African Americans felt this way at the end of reconstruction.
What is bad, horrible, despair, hopeless, angry, strife, like property again, etc?
200
These laws enforced segregation of blacks and whites in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300
This change to the Constitution in 1865 abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the thirteenth (13th) amendment?
300
This is what happened to President Andrew Johnson after he violated the Office of Tenure Act.
What is impeached?
300
President Grant won the presidency with the help of half a million votes from this group.
Who are black voters?
300
This allowed former Confederates to vote again if they expressed forgiveness for their previous deeds.
What is the Amnesty Act of 1872?
300
These were rules passed in the South that were designed to make it difficult/impossible for African Americans to vote.
What are poll taxes (a fee to vote) and literacy tests (tests designed to show the ability to read)?
400

These laws were passed in the South during 1865-1866 to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.

What are black codes?

400
This system of farming allowed landowners to rent out plots of their land to farmers who often went into debt with the landowner.
What is sharecropping?
400
It said that a citizen's right to vote "shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It granted every male citizen the right to vote, regardless of race.
What is the fifteenth (15th) amendment?
400
Three laws passed by Congress in 1870-1871 to combat/ fight against violence against African Americans.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
400
This decision by the U.S. Supreme Court stated that "separate but equal" was Constitutional and that segregation was not a violation.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500

This agency was established by Congress to help protect newly freed black Americans.

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

500
This act divided the Southern states into districts to be governed by federal troops.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
500
Many people from this group were elected to state governments in the South as a result of the 15th amendment.
Who are African Americans?
500
What led to President Hayes being elected and federal troops being removed from the Southern states?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
The name given to the large group of African Americans who traveled to Kansas in 1879.
Who are "exodusters?"