Civil War & Reconstruction 1
This was a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until roughly 1877. Their primary goal was the immediate, complete, and permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise.
What is Radical Republicans?
A discriminatory practice that required paying a fee to vote; the measures effectively disenfranchised many poor whites and African Americans at the time.
What were poll taxes?
This was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861–1865); it lasted from 1865 to 1877 and marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.
What is Reconstruction Era?
This was the 16th President of the United States, whose election sparked the South leaving the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was an agency of early Reconstruction which assisted freedmen in the South.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This Reconstruction era amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to the treatment of freedmen following the war.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A discriminatory practice that required evidence of the ability to read to vote; the measures effectively disenfranchised many poor whites and African Americans at the time.
What were literacy tests?
This was a racist white supremacist group that used fear tactics to scare, harm, and even kill Southern blacks and white sympathizers or politicians from roughly 1865-1872.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
This Reconstruction era amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
This was a tactic used primarily in the South to exploit African Americans and poor white by legally using forced labor for those imprisoned for minor offenses and broad vagrancy laws.
What was convict labor?
These were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free and freed blacks). The best known of them were passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages.
What were the Black Codes?
This was the President of the United States from 1869-1877 and former U.S. General during the American Civil War. He supported the protection of freed blacks following the Civil War but differed on his views from some Radical Republicans.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This was a policy that took place mostly in the South and some other states in which public facilities and organizations were legally separated by race. It is best known by the phrase ‘separate but equal.’
What was segregation?
These were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States and elsewhere within the United States until the mid-1960s.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
This Reconstruction era amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was the President of the United States following the assassination of Lincoln that opposed many of the measures of the Radical Republican Congress.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This was a landmark decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court that codified the constitutional doctrine for racial segregation laws and found that as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, African-Americans could be served separately from whites.
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction era designed to "protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights", providing for equal treatment in public accommodations and transportation and prohibiting jury service exclusion.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
This Proclamation used military occupation of rebel territory to permanently free slaves.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln suspended this court order after Union forces seized potentially-rebellious border state citizens and political officials.
What was writ of habeas corpus?