Terms
the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by discriminatory means
What is segregation?
He became president after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This region supported segregation.
What is the South?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
Mrs. Walker's middle name.
What is Ruth?
Northerners who came South to help rebuild.
What are carpetbaggers?
Mrs. Walker's favorite color.
What is orange?
This state is where Mrs. Walker was born.
What is New Jersey?
This act was passed by Congress to make sure its laws were being followed. It divided the Confederacy into 5 military districts and gave the army the responsibility of enforcing the laws in each district.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
These laws segregated Black people. They could not use the same public places that white people used. The public places they could use were often inferior to the ones white people used.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Southerners who supported Reconstruction.
What are scalawags?
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
BONUS: Some Americans began settling this area in the late 1800s.
What is the West?
This amendment did not allow states to deny black people the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
An organization set up to provide food and clothing to freed slaves and poor white Southerners. It tried to find jobs for the freedmen. It also set up schools for Black people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The war that destroyed the South leading up to the Reconstruction.
What is the Civil War?
This man was elected president and withdrew the military from the southern states, which resulted in the Democrats regaining control of the government.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This region did NOT support segregation.
What is the North?
This amendment gave citizenship to any person born in the US. That person would also be a citizen of the state they lived in. If a state did not let all male citizens vote, it would lose some of its representatives in Congress.
What is the 14th amendment?
BONUS:
True or False: Everyone followed the law out West. Native Americans and White settlers got along very well.
False
This author wrote The Saddle Club.
Who is Bonnie Bryant?
These Black men were either senators or representatives in Southern states.
Who are Hiram H. Revels, Blanche K. Bruce, and Robert Smalls?
The southern states were split into 5 of these as a result of the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
What are military districts?
These laws treated Black Americans like slaves. In particular, it limited their access to better jobs. It forced them to work for white people.
What are the Black Codes?
Southern Democrats' efforts paid off, and they put Democratic candidates in office in Southern states. They used these offices to take back control of their states, work to prevent Black citizens from voting, and pass Jim Crow laws.
What is the Redemption of the South?