Limiting Rights
What group aimed to limit the rights of African Americans through terrorism and intimidation?
Ku Klux Klan
What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?
Equality under the law
What was the plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Who became the President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
What is the difference between integration and segregation?
Segregation is the separation of races, integration is the combining of races
"No Negro shall be allowed to preach or declaim in front of a congregation of Negros unless he has written permission from his employer or police official"
This is an example of what?
Black Codes
What did the 15th Amendment guarantee?
When someone works a portion of a plantation owner's land in exchange for a home to rent and a share of the crop that they harvest
Sharecropping
Was Andrew Johnson a well-liked President?
Not even close
Name 2 job opportunities available for women after the Civil War.
Nursing, child care, teaching, relief agencies
What made public school systems expensive in the post-Civil War era?
Segregation required each district to have 2 separate schools
What law made it a crime to prevent someone from exercising their right to vote?
Enforcement Acts
What was the group of people called that wanted to work together to bring the South back to its former glory and take back control from Northerners and African Americans?
redeemers
What is it called when congress tries to accuse a President of wrongdoing and remove him from office? (It happened to Andrew Johnson)
impeach
Why were single women typically the only females in the workforce?
Because most married women devoted their time to raising children and maintaining the home
Who was in charge of enforcing Black Codes?
All white citizens in the community
Why were churches and Freedmen's Bureau Schools important in African American communities?
they served as community centers and provided education to freed men and women
Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to take advantage of opportunities to make money or become politicians
What caused influential banks to fail in 1873?
Overextending loans to railroad companies
What were the effects of the Civil War on the Democratic Party?
It became the party of the industrial workers
It came to dominate the South
What rights were African Americans denied in the South after the Civil War?
Did not have access to full citizenship
Did not have the right to vote
Did not have access to an education
Who became President as part of the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes
This organization provided food, clothing, and an education to former slaves and poor white farmers living in the South
Freedmen's Bureau
What 3 things drew the nation's attention away from Reconstruction?
1. Increase in immigration
2. Corruption in politics
3. National banks failed
What were the affects of the Civil War on the Republican Party?
Became the party of Lincoln
Became associated with freeing the slaves
Became the party of big business