Key Terms
Workers paid in crops instead of money
What is share cropping?
Built more than 4,000 schools and hired thousands of teachers
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
Most battles of the Civil War were fought here
Where is the South?
A voting method in which no one knows how anyone else has voted.”
What is a secret ballot?
To rebuild taxes were increased in the South by these
What are state governments?
Gave freed male slaves the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
Established the Freedmen's Bureau
What is Congress?
Keeping people in separate groups based on their culture
What is segregation?
When Reconstruction was over these were lost by African Americans
What are their rights and freedoms?
Established that freed slaves were recognized as citizens
What is the 14th Amendment?
When African Americans AND white Southerners struggled to find jobs
When is after the Civil War?
Secret organization the used violence against African Americans
What is the Klu Klux Klan?
They were given a cabin, mules, tools and seeds
Who are the share croppers?
These were passed to limit voting rights of African Americans
What are the Jin Crow Laws?
Instead of using secret ballots, people in the South made votes known this way
What is printing in the newspaper?
Help to freed southern slaves and others
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These are known as the Reconstruction Amendments
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
Means to "rebuild"
What is Reconstruction?
Ordered the Union troops to leave the South
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?