Reconstruction Era Laws
A southern law requiring African Americans to pay a fee in order to vote
What were Poll Taxes?
Legal separation of people according to their race.
What is segregation?
This Amendment banned slavery in the United States.
What was the 13th Amendment?
The 11 year period following the Civil War in the South.
What was Reconstruction?
His plan was called the Ten Percent Plan.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson's attempt to fire this person from his job resulted in Johnson's impeachment.
Who was Secretary of War Edwin Stanton?
Southern laws requiring people to prove they could read before they could vote.
What were Literacy Test laws?
A term used for Northerners who traveled to live and work in the South after the Civil War.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
These three amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
The period when 10 southern states were divided into 5 military districts run by generals.
What is Military Reconstruction?
His plan allowed former Confederate military and political leaders to ask for amnesty and pardons.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This former slave fought for all people to have full, equal legal rights.
Who was Fredrick Douglass?
Southern laws that limited what Freedmen could do and where they could live and work.
What were the Black Codes?
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation, and violence to take away African Americans' rights.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Newly freed African Americans.
Who were the Freedmen?
This group's plan required southern states to abolish slavery and give all men the right to vote.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The first African-American US Senator.
Who was Hiram Revels?
Law allowing the Federal government to punish people who tried to take away Freedmen's rights.
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What was the Ku Klux Klan Act?
An (often unfair) agreement to rent farmland in exchange for part of the crops grown on the land.
What was sharecropping?
This amendment granted all persons born in the U.S. or naturalized in the U.S. full citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Executing a person without a lawful arrest or trial.
What was lynching?
He proposed a law to take away land in the South and give it to Freedmen in 40 acre farms.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
The "Corrupt Bargain" -- also called the Compromise of 1877 -- made him President.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
A law that allowed a person to vote if his older family members could vote before the Civil War.
What was a Grandfather Clause?
A southern term for white southerners who supported Reconstruction.
Who were scalawags?
This amendment guarantees equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A group of politicians who wanted to punish the South and protect the rights of Freedmen after the Civil War.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The Radical Republican's plan for Reconstruction required states to ratify this amendment to the Constitution.
What was the 14th Amendment?
He was the first African American to serve as governor of a state.
Who was Pinckney B.S. Pinchback?