Amendments and Laws
Slavery shall not exist in the United States. Which amendment guaranteed this?
13th Amendment
Who replaced Abraham Lincoln as president after he was killed?
Andrew Johnson
Agency set up by the Department of War to help the former slaves in the South?
Freedmen's Bureau
African American men voted in the 1872 election. Which amendment gave them the legal right to do that?
15th amendment
What does it mean when you see "suffrage given to African American men"
they were given the right to vote
Laws passed by Southern states to limit the affect of federal laws which gave freedoms to the former slaves.
- African Americans cannot serve on a jury
- African Americans cannot bear arms
Black Codes
The group of northern politicians who passed laws to give citizenship, equal rights and the right to vote to the former slaves?
Radical Republicans
This practice arose during Reconstruction because most of the former slaves did not know any other trades except farming. Land owners would rent plots of land, along with seeds and supplies to farmers in exchange for a large share of their crop.
sharecropping
This agency provided the former slaves with education, food, medicine and clothing?
Freedmen's Bureau
This group of white Southern extremists terrorized African Americans and anyone who helped them in the South?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Amendment which gave citizenship to African Americans and protection of their basic rights.
14th Amendment
Why did Congress try to impeach Andrew Johnson?
he kept vetoing laws passed by Radical Republicans
Laws created by Southern states to limit the freedom of the former slaves?
Black Codes
If the former slaves had, had any money to travel they could have moved away from the South. Which amendment gave them the right to leave the South if they wanted to?
13th amendment
In addition to rebuilding the South after the Civil War, Reconstruction focused on _________?
A plan for admitting the former Confederate states back into the Union
These laws were passed by Southern states to segregate blacks and whites.
Jim Crow laws
Andrew Johnson supported ending slavery (13th amendment) but he did not support equal rights for the former slaves. He voted against the ___ and ___ amendments?
14th and 15th
One of the most important accomplishments of the Freedmen's Bureau was building _________ to _________ the former slaves?
schools, educate
Date period of the Reconstruction era?
1865 - 1877
What was a Carpetbagger?
a person from the North who went South to profit from Reconstruction.
Amendment which granted suffrage to African American men.
15th Amendment
What is considered the greatest political impact of Reconstruction?
3 new amendments were added to the Constitution
One of the biggest social problems that arose from Reconstruction was the sharecropping system. It was regarded as a form of legal slavery, as most farmer's could not pay all their debts at the end of each year and they would start the next year already in debt. This was known as a ___________________________.
"cycle of debt"
What did the African Americans call the deal made by the North and South to end Reconstruction?
The Great Betrayal
What was a poll tax?
It was money paid to vote. Southerners created poll taxes knowing that most of the former slaves could not afford to pay it and thus, could not vote.