Reconstruction Basics
This period followed the Civil War and focused on reuniting the nation.
What is Reconstruction?
Under the 10% Plan, this percentage of voters had to swear loyalty.
What is 10%?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
This system kept African Americans economically dependent on white landowners.
What is sharecropping?
This leader believed economic success and job skills would lead to equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
One major problem facing the government during Reconstruction.
What is how to admit Southern states back into the Union?
OR
What is how to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans.
This president created the 10% Plan.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th amendment?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This leader believed higher education and political action were necessary for equality.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
This government agency provided food, clothing, schools, and shelter to freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Radical Republicans believed Lincoln’s plan was too ________?
What is lenient?
This amendment prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This group used intimidation and violence to enforce white supremacy.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This institution in Alabama was led by Booker T. Washington.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
This term describes Southern support for the Democratic Party after Reconstruction.
What is the Solid South?
This president was impeached because Radical Republicans disagreed with his Reconstruction policies.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These three amendments together are known as this nickname.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This law required separate railroad cars for Black and white passengers in Louisiana.
What is the Separate Car Act?
Du Bois helped found this civil rights organization.
What is the NAACP?
This political agreement ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This bill attempted to give Congress control of Reconstruction and required a majority loyalty oath.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This Supreme Court case ruled segregation was legal under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson? (1896)
These three voting restrictions were used to prevent African Americans from voting.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
This type of education was emphasized by Booker T. Washington as the path to equality.
What is vocational (industrial) education?