Reconstruction Policies and Acts
This term refers to laws passed by Southern states to restrict the freedom of African Americans after Reconstruction.
Black codes
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
a fee people had to pay before voting.
Poll tax
What were the TWO main ways black people defined freedom after the Civil War
They saw freedom as having an education and land of their own
This group used violence and intimidation against African Americans and Republican leaders during Reconstruction
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This 1877 compromise ended Reconstruction and settled the disputed 1876 presidential election.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. including former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
What does disenfranchisement mean?
Is the denial or restriction of the right to vote
Which of the following best explains why Radical Republicans were considered “radical”?
They wanted a national bank that printed paper money
They wanted to erase the debt of poor people
They wanted racial equality
They accepted immigrants into America
They wanted racial equality
This economic system in the South replaced slavery but often trapped African Americans in debt.
What is sharecropping or tenant farming?
This plan, proposed by Lincoln, offered a quick restoration of Southern states if 10% of voters pledged loyalty.
Lincoln's 10 percent plan
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
What was a goal of groups such as the Ku Klux Klan
A. To bring the South back into the Union.
B.To get rid white supremacy and help black people.
C. To drive out white Northerners who helped poor white people.
D. To terrorize black people and prevent them from exercising their rights
D. To terrorize black people and prevent them from exercising their rights
All of the following people would likely support the 13th Amendment except
A. Radical Republicans
B.Confederate soldiers
C.Freedman Bureau agents
B.Confederate soldiers
This term refers to Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction, often seen as opportunists.
What are Carpetbaggers?
He was the 18th President of the U.S. who led the country during early Reconstruction after Lincoln’s assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This social system was established in the South to maintain white supremacy and suppress African Americans.
What is the Jim Crow system?
Which of the following would the Freedmen’s Bureau most likely support?
A.Voting rights for black people
B.Voting rights for women
C.Land redistribution to poor white people
D.Confederate generals elected into Congress
A.Voting rights for black people
Plessy v. Ferguson caused which of the following to happen?
A. Stated that separate but equal was constitutional and caused Jim Crow
B. Made Jim Crow laws illegal
C. Integrated Schools
A. Stated that separate but equal was constitutional and caused Jim Crow
This Supreme Court case in 1876 ruled that segregation was constitutional under "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This organization helped former slaves with education, jobs, and legal assistance during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
These tests were often rigged to fail any African American regardless of their education.
These laws segregated public facilities in the South after Reconstruction ended.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This president ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?