Basics
What is the time period after the Civil War called when the Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the nation?
Reconstruction
Why didn't Lincoln get to enforce his ideal Reconstruction plan?
He was assassinated just days after the war
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
13th amendment
This labor system trapped many African Americans in debt and poverty after the Civil War.
Sharecropping
This group used terror and violence to stop African Americans from voting.
Ku Klux Klan
This organization helped freed African Americans with education, jobs, food, clothing, and medical care.
Freedmen's Bureau
This president supported quick forgiveness for former Confederates and did little to protect freedmen.
Andrew Johnson
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the U.S.
14th amendment
In this system, farmers paid rent using crops instead of money.
Sharecropping
The Ku Klux Klan was originally formed to....
Terrorize and threaten African Americans out of political office
These laws were passed in the South to limit the rights and freedoms of freed African Americans.
Black Codes
This Reconstruction plan focused on punishing the South and protecting African American rights.
Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th amendment
This voting requirement charged people money to vote, which many African Americans could not afford.
Poll tax
What were the laws passed by Congress to combat violence against African Americans
Enforcement Acts (1870-71)
This Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities were “equal.”
Plessy v Ferguson
Radical Republicans required Southern states to ratify this amendment to rejoin the Union.
14th amendment
All people born or naturalized in the United States are U.S. citizens. African Americans are now seen as citizens of the United States, people treated fairly under the law.
*Equal rights and citizenship to ALL; including African Americans
Plessy v. Ferguson challenged segregation on the basis of what amendment?
14th (equal protection under the law to all citizens)
Name the most significant lasting impact of the Freedmen's Bureau
Education for African Americans
What is the separation of people based on race called?
Segregation
This election led to the removal of federal troops from the South and the end of Reconstruction.
Election of 1876
This Reconstruction phase saw African Americans elected to constitutional conventions and new state governments.
Southern Reconstruction
What was the result of the Plessy v Ferguson case?
Segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal
(separate but equal)
This rule allowed men to skip literacy tests if their grandfather had voted before 1867.
Grandfather clause
These laws enforced racial separation in the South.
Jim Crow laws