Impacts of the Civil War
What was the term for the period following the American Civil War aimed at rebuilding the Southern states and integrating newly freed African Americans into society?
What is Reconstruction?
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery?
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
What term describes a fee imposed on voters as a requirement for voting, often used to disenfranchise African Americans and poor whites?
What is a poll tax?
What term describes the African American political leaders who emerged during Reconstruction and held public offices in the South?
Who are African American politicians?
Which Reconstruction plan was more lenient towards Southern elites, pardoning many former Confederates, including high-ranking officials and wealthy planters?
What is Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
What role did women play during the Civil War, as many took on new responsibilities and expanded their roles in society?
What is the emergence of women in the workforce and in volunteer organizations?
Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States?
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
What term refers to laws enacted by Southern states to restrict voting rights, often requiring individuals to prove their ability to read and write?
What are literacy tests?
What term describes those who worked to educate newly freed slaves and help them integrate into society during Reconstruction?
What are Freedmen's Bureau agents?
Which Reconstruction plan imposed more stringent requirements for readmission to the Union, including the ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments and the acceptance of federal authority over state governments?
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
What major constitutional amendments were passed during Reconstruction to address the political rights and citizenship of African Americans?
What are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments?
Which amendment prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
What provision exempted individuals from literacy tests and poll taxes if their ancestors had been eligible to vote before the Civil War?
What is the grandfather clause?
What was the name for the faction of the Republican Party during Reconstruction advocating for civil rights for freedmen and punishment for Confederate leaders?
Who are the Radical Republicans?
What federal agency established in 1865 provided assistance to newly freed slaves and impoverished whites in the South?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
What was the outcome of the disputed presidential election of 1876, and how did it affect the course of Reconstruction?
What is the Compromise of 1877, which ended Reconstruction and withdrew federal troops from the South?
What term refers to the system of agriculture in the South after the Civil War, where landless farmers worked on land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops produced?
What is sharecropping?
What discriminatory practice involved the establishment of separate facilities for African Americans and whites?
What is segregation?
What term describes Southern whites who supported Reconstruction policies and the Republican Party?
Who are scalawags?
Which Reconstruction plan allowed Southern states to rejoin the Union once 10% of their voters pledged loyalty to the Union?
What is Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan?
What were some of the long-term economic legacies of the Civil War, including changes in labor relations, industrialization, and infrastructure development?
What are the lasting effects of the Civil War on the American economy, including the growth of industry and the expansion of transportation networks?
What term describes the secret society formed in the Southern United States during Reconstruction aimed at intimidating African Americans and white Republicans?
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
What were the laws enacted in the Southern United States after Reconstruction to enforce racial segregation and discrimination?
What are Jim Crow laws?
What term describes Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often for political or economic gain?
Who are carpetbaggers?
What legislation passed by Congress in 1867 divided the South into military districts and imposed military rule to enforce Reconstruction policies?
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?