End of Reconstruction
White supremacist group that used violence to intimidate Black Americans.
What is Ku Klux Klan
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment
This agency formerly helped enslaved people with education, food, and medical care.
What is Freedmen’s Bureau
Laws that restricted the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What is Black Codes
This law that enforced racial segregation.
What is Jim Crow Laws
Compromise of 1877Political agreement that helped end Reconstruction in 1877.
What is Compromise of 1877
The amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law
What is the 14th Amendment
This law that granted citizenship and civil rights in 1866.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Farmers who worked land in exchange for a share of the crops.
Who are Sharecroppers
A fee people had to pay to vote.
What is Poll Tax
Supreme Court case that upheld segregation in 1896?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
This amendment is known as the Citizenship Amendment
What is the 14th Amendment
This law divided the South into military districts in 1867.
Military Reconstruction Act
African Americans who served in elected or appointed government positions during Reconstruction.
Who are African American office holders
This test used to prevent many Black Americans from voting by requiring reading or interpretation skills.
What is the Literacy Test
What organization used terror to oppose Reconstruction and Black civil rights?
What is Ku Klux Klan
Which Amendment is known as the Equal Protection Amendment
This law was intended to protect the civil rights of African Americans in 1866?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866
What economic system often trapped Black farmers in debt after the Civil War?
What is Sharecropping
What was the name of the legal system that enforced racial separation?
What is Jim Crow Laws
What agreement resulted in the withdrawal of remaining federal troops from the South?
What is Compromise of 1877
What is the 15th Amendment
This goal was to to help millions of newly freed African Americans
Freeman´s Burue
What were laws called that limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people?
What is Black Codes
What Supreme Court decision established the “separate but equal” doctrine?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)