Southern laws during reconstruction
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?
The 10 year period following the Civil War in the south.
What was Reconstruction?
Laws that created separate facilities based on race.
What were Jim Crow laws?
A term used for Northerners who traveled to the South for political and economic gain following the end of the Civil War.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
These three amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
What was Lincoln's plan called for readmitting southern states to the union?
10 percent plan
Southern states adopted these codes as a means of restricting the freedmen from exercising their full citizenship rights.
What were the Black Codes?
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation and violence in an attempt to prevent African Americans from accessing their Constitutional rights.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Newly freed African American.
What was the Freedmen?
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is 1) African Americans were still farming land that did not belong to them (working for some one else) 2) African Americans were often trapped in a cycle of debt and so remained poor and unable to improve their life 3) African Americans were still working very hard as farmers.
What were ways sharecropping was similar to slavery?
This amendment granted all persons born in the U.S. or naturalized in the U.S. full citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
They patrolled the southern states during Reconstruction in an effort to keep peace/ stop violence against African Americans.
Who were federal troops?
The policy that made it so black people could not vote if their older family members could not vote.
What was the grandfather clause?
He encouraged his fellow Southerns to reunite with the North at the end of the Civil War? He was the general of the Confederacy.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes
Who were the Presidents of the United States during Reconstruction?
The political party that wanted to punish the southern confederate states following the Civil War.
Who were the Radical Republicans?