Civil Rights
Laws
Events
Key Terms
Analysis
100
The political party that wanted to hold the South accountable. They also believed that African Americans should hold the same rights as Whites.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
100
These laws abolished slavery, gave rights to freed slaves, and allowed them the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
100
Established by Congress, this organization helped former slaves and poor whites by distributing clothes and food.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
Northerners who moved to the South in The Civil War.
What are Carpetbaggers?
100
Identify the organization in this picture and a common practice.
The organization in the picture is the Ku Klux Klan, a secret organization that would lynch African Americans.
200
Laws passed in the South to impose or infringe on the rights of freedmen.
What were the Jim Crow Laws (Black Codes)?
200
A law passed that declared voters whose grandparents have voted did not need to take a test and is allowed to vote.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
200
This happened in Ford's Theatre whilst the performance of "Our American Cousin"
What was Lincoln's Assassination?
200
White Southerners who joined the Republican Party
What are Scalawags?
200
First white man: “Of course he wants to vote for the democratic ticket!”
Second white man: “You’re as free as air, ain’t you? Say you are, or I’ll blow your black head off!”
Based off of this conversation, how were African Americans ripped from their rights?
The white men in the South would use fear and threats of violence to convince African Americans not to exercise their rights.
300
An organization well-known for their use of violence to deter freedmen from exercising their rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
All former confederate states (except Tennessee) were divided in military districts. It created some criteria that the South had to follow before gaining representation in Congress.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
300
The election where the Radical Republicans took over (2/3) majority of the seats in Congress.
What were the 1866 Congressional Elections?
300
The House of Representatives decided that Andrew Johnson should be removed from his position.
What is Impeachment? (1868)
300
Identify the main idea present in this cartoon.
Life in the South was arguably worse due to organizations like the KKK through their use of violence. (Optional Addition: The freed slaves did not get enough resources and education to live properly.)
400
A movement to promote the right to vote for ALL men and women.
What is (universal) suffrage?
400
According to this act, when the Senate is in session, the president cannot legally remove an appointed official without their consent; The president can otherwise.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
400
The election where Ulysses S. Grant won against Horatio Seymore.
What was the election of 1868?
400
A time where attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery; it was a period of rebuilding.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
400
The following excerpt is an example of what practice(s) in the South?
He said, “The colored people could never protect themselves among the white people. So you had all better stay with the white people who raised you and make contracts with them to work by the year for one-fifth of all you make... We have contracts for you all to sign, to work for one-twentieth you make from now until the crop is ended, and then next year you all can make another crop and get more of it.”
This is an example of Sharecropping.
Partial credit (100) for the following: Racism, Threats/Blackmail, or Coercion.
500
Passed before the 14th amendment, this law declared that all men born in the US is a citizen no matter the race.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
500
This was Congress's response to the violence in the South, mostly caused by the Ku Klux Klan. This would lead to the disbanding of the Ku Klux Klan.
What were the Enforcement Acts in 1870 and 1871?
500
President Hayes won the Election of 1876. This act was passed because of his promise to the South that he would remove all federal troops.
What was the The Compromise of 1877 (Home Rule)?
500
When the Radical and Moderate Republicans worked together to shift control of the reconstruction process from the Executive Branch to the Legislative Branch.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
500
Identify the political context based on this image.
Segregation and racism was prevalent in the South. Even after the laws that granted rights to African Americans, Southern states passed Jim Crow Laws (Black Codes) to infringe on their rights.
Additional Context (optional): the Plessy V Ferguson Court Case ruled that separate does mean equal. This meant that as long as Blacks had their own facility, other facilities can prevent Blacks from entering. (Bathrooms, Schools, Restaurants, etc.)