People/Groups
Convicts
laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen
Black Codes
This political party opposed President Johnson, and had more inclusive plans for reconstruction
The Republican Party
the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
Reconstruction
This former civil war General became president after Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
These were tests that African Americans were required to pass before they could vote.
How many Black men were elected to office during reconstruction?
What removed federal Troops from the South and ended Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
Who led the opposition to Andrew Johnson?
the Radical Republicans
A form of slavery that allowed people found guilty of crimes to be rented out to plantations.
This act made it a federal crime to try to prevent African Americans from being able to vote.
The KKK Act
This state was the first to see its state legislature be majority Black.
South Carolina
This Republican man was elected president in 1876.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Many Southern States created these, which required individuals to pay before they could vote.
What are poll taxes?
a U.S. government agency that helped formerly enslaved people after the Civil War
the Freedman's Bureau
In her speech, "We Are All Bound Up Together", what was Frances Watkins Harper arguing for?
Equal rights for all, including Black women (the right to vote for all women is accepted)