The Pennsylvania Congressman who argued for land redistribution of Southern land. When he died he was buried in a black cemetery.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens.
100
This Union General issued Field Order 15, setting aside the Sea Islands and land along the South Carolina coast for freed families.
Who was General William T. Sherman?
100
The name given to the decision to give the disputed presidential election to Hayes.
What is The Compromise of 1877?
100
The founder of the Ku Klux Klan.
Who was Nathan Bedford Forrest?
100
A derogatory southern term for the Northerners who came to the South after the Civil War to take part in Reconstruction.
What is a carpetbagger?
200
The president whose Reconstruction plan was formed in cooperation with Congressional Republicans.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant.
200
This constitutional amendment forbade the denial of male voting rights based on race.
What is the 15th amendment?
200
The Southern Democrats who took control from formerly Republican/Black coalitions and promised to reduce taxes gave themselves this name.
What is Redeemers?
200
President Grant signed this action into law in an attempt to infiltrate groups that committed violent acts against freedmen?
What were the Enforcement Acts?
200
A derogatory term for white southerners who aligned themselves with the Republican Party.
What is a scalawag?
300
The president who pocket vetoed the Wade-Davis Reconstruction Bill.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
In December of 1865 Congress extended the life of this agency set up to assist freedmen in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
This plan named after the state that initiated it called for the use of threats violence, and lynching to intimidate Republicans and bring the Democratic Party to power.
What is the Mississippi Plan?
300
The 1873 war in which whites in this Louisiana town took control of the government there from a Republican coalition of blacks and white through violence.
What is Colfax, Louisiana?
300
The African American civil rights leader who fought for racial equality. He was regarded as the leader of black Americans during the second half of the 19th century.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
400
He became president when a Congressional Committee selected him over Samuel J. Tilden in a disputed election where the vote in Florida was in question.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
400
A law passed by Congress in 1875 prohibiting racial discrimination in the selection of juries and in transportation and other businesses open to the general public.
What is The Civil Rights Act of 1875?
400
The violent takeover by the Democrats in this majority black county near Houston included a shootout, and led to Democratic rule there.
What is Fort Bend County?
400
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to limit the freedom of African Americans, and force them to return to manual labor.
What are Black Codes?
400
The only formerly Confederate state that was not part of the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
What is Tennessee?
500
Andrew Johnson was impeached by Congress for violating the Tenure of Office Act by firing this Secretary of War.
Who was Edwin Stanton?
500
The first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?
500
He headed the Republican Party in Texas, and resided in Galveston, Texas
Who is Norris Cuney?
500
An 1866 riot occurred in this city along the Mississippi R. after black veterans of the Union army came to the assistance of a black man arrested by white police. Forty-Five blacks and three whites died.
What is Memphis?
500
The day the slaves in Texas learned of their freedom.