North and South
What is a Scalawag?
Southerners that supported the North
What is the 13th amendment?
Passed in 1865 - Abolished slavery across the U.S.
Andrew Johnson vetoed bills to protect freed people. What does veto mean?
reject a decision or refuses to approve a bill
What were the Black Codes?
The Black Codes were made to limit the rights of blacks. Allowed by Andrew Johnson.
What is the KKK?
A group of white men wanting to terrorize African Americans.
What is a Carpetbagger?
Northerners who moved south, often to make money.
What is the 15th amendment?
Passed in 1870 - It gave all MALE citizens the right to vote.
He created the 10% plan.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
What did the Freedmen's Bureau do for African Americans?
It helped former slaves with schools, getting jobs, and housing.
What was the KKK originally supposed to be?
A Social Group.
How long did Reconstruction last, and when did it start and end?
It lasted 12 years, from 1865-1877.
What was the Poll Tax and what did it do?
The Poll Tax was a law that made people have to pay to vote. Made to limit voting for African Americans.
Who was impeached for fighting against the Republicans?
Andrew Johnson, He was charged with high crimes and wrongdoings.
What did the Jim Crow laws do?
Segregated whites and African Americans in ways such as ‘Colored drinking fountains’ and ‘White only drinking fountains.’
What were most of the KKK members once a part of?
The Confederate Army, Former Soldiers.
What was the compromise of 1877?
It was a deal to let Hayes be president as long as he pulled his troops out of the south. (Federal Troops)
What was the Literacy Test and what did it do?
A test made up of complex sentences that your had to be able to read to vote. Uneducated African Americans couldn't vote.
This was a system in which African Americans or poor white farmers could rent land from plantation owners in exchange for a share of the crop.
What is share cropping.
What was the Grandfather Clause?
It was a law for African Americans that said if you had an ancestor that voted before 1867 you could vote.
What is it called when a vigilante group hangs someone?
A Lynch.
Why was the Plessy vs. Ferguson case important in history?
It was the first real protest from African Americans for more equality, taken to the supreme court and the U.S. Court.
What is the 14th amendment?
Passed in 1868 - It gave African Americans citizenship and equal protection.
Who was the first African American senator?
Hiram Revels, voted into senate in 1870.
Jim Crow laws got its name from a minstrel show. Who was Jim Crow?
A white man painted to look like a black, acting foolish or strangely to imitate blacks.
Why did the KKK terrorize African Americans?
They saw whites as the better race.