People
The President of the United States during the Civil War. Wrote the emancipation proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
Name of the group of Democrats and moderate republicans working together to gain power in the South.
The Redeemers.
Supreme Court case that upheld segregation stating that it was legal as long as accommodations were "separate but equal"
Plessy V. Ferguson
Political group that heavily pushed for increased civil rights for African Americans after the civil war. They were unpopular in the south and tried to impeach Andrew Johnson.
Radical Republicans
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. This encouraged tenants to work to produce the biggest harvest that they could, and ensured they would remain tied to the land and unlikely to leave for other opportunities
Sharecropping
President after Lincoln. Was more moderate. First president to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
Derogatory term used northerners moving South during reconstruction for opportunity.
Carpetbaggers
Act that ensured anyone born in the United States was an American citizen with certain rights and protections under the law.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Ended dispute over the 1876 election. Made Rutherford B. Hayes the president of the U.S. and removed federal troops from the South ending reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877
restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces. Ended by the civil rights act of 1866
Black Codes
Wanted to work and educate African Americans to overcome segregation, wanted vocational education.
Booker T. Washington
Scalawags
A set of supreme court cases originating from Louisiana that led to the narrowing of the use for the 14th amendment in protecting individual rights
Slaughterhouse cases
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Farming system where someone rents the land outright and then can make whatever decisions they want about what, how much, and where to plant crops.
Tenant Farming
Wrote an editorial exposing the horrors of lynching.
Ida B. Wells
One of the ways of taking away the ability to vote for Southern African Americans that was done by charging a fee to be able to vote.
Poll Tax
Acts that were passed as a way of combating the Klan and attempted to protect African American's right to vote.
Enforcement Acts
granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”
14th Amendment
Farming system with more choice about what was planted and what tool could be worn. Share of the crops were still shared with the land owners.
Share Tenancy
Stated that African Americans should demand equality and not be limited by a vocational education.
W.E.B. Du Bois
A terrorist group that was made in order to scare and intimidate African Americans and their supporters from voting.
The Ku Klux Klan
Supreme Court decision that stated that the protections of the 14th amendment only applied to the government and not private citizens.
United States V. Cruikshank
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
15th Amendment
Organization beginning in 1865 providing aid to African Americans in the form of education, food, clothing, and reuniting families.
Freed men's Bureau