Amendments/Laws
Laws that allowed racial segregation in public places
Jim Crow Laws
The period from 1865 to 1877 that focused on reuniting the nation is known as what?
Reconstruction
U.S. Supreme Court case that established "separate but equal" doctrine for public facilities.
Plessy V. Ferguson
Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
Tax you had to pay in order to vote
Poll Tax
Made slavery illegal in the United States.
Thirteenth Amendment
The Senate did not convict Johnson, but his _________ was greatly reduced.
Power
What was the most successful industrial development?
Textile Mills
After opposing congress, Andrew Johnson became the first president to face what kind of proceedings?
Impeachment
Vice president that decided that wealthy southerners and former confederate officials needed a presidential pardon to receive amnesty.
Andrew Johnson
Agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
Following the Civil War, many African Americans in the South made a living by participating in the ________________ system.
Sharecropping
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five districts that were led by:
A military commander
Agency established to help poor people throughout the South; established 3,000 schools and universities.
Freedman's Bureau
Forced separation of people of different races in public.
Segregation
Gave African American men the right to vote.
Fifteenth Amendment
How did the Freedman' Bureau assist freed people and poor southerners after the Civil War?
By building schools and colleges
What group wanted President Johnson's administration to take a much more active role in Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans
Secret society created that used violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their rights
Ku Klux Klan
The radical republicnas were led by _______________, a member of congress from Pennsylvania.
Thaddeus Stevens
Gave full rights of citizenship to all people born in the US, except for Native Americans
Fourteenth Amendment
Which of the following helped weaken northern support for Reconstruction? TWO answers.
Panic of 1873 and Whiskey Ring Scandal Civil Rights Act of 1875.
As part of the effort to reverse the accomplishments of Reconstruction, southern governments used _________ and ____________ to prevent African Americans from voting.
Poll Taxes and Literacy Test
What acts made it a federal crime to interfere with elections or to deny citizens equal protection under the law?
Enforcement Acts
In 1870, ____________________ became the first African American to serve in the U.S. sentate.
Hiram Revels