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100

Name of terrorist organization created during the Reconstruction Era in the South, that used terror to enforce white supremacy. 

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

100

Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States. 

13th Amendment 

100

This person assassinated(killed) President Lincoln.  

John Wilkes Booth

100

This person was President during Presidential Reconstruction.

Abraham Lincoln

100

Period directly after the Civil War, to try to reunite the South and the North

Reconstruction 

100

True or False: Violence against African American was only experienced in the South. 

False

200

Passed laws that enforced racial segregation in schools, transportation, and public spaces under the idea of “separate but equal.” 

Jim Crow Laws 

200

Amendment that prevented the restriction of voting rights based on race, ethnicity, or previous condition of servitude. This amendment provided voting rights to African American men. 

15th Amendment

200

This person became President of the United States following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 

President Andrew Johnson 

200

These schools for higher education were created during Presidential Reconstruction.


Historically Black Colleges and Universities

HBCUs

200

Under this plan, a southern state could rejoin the union if 10 percent of its voters took an oath of loyalty to the U.S.

Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan 

200

Massacre that killed hundreds after an African American man was elected to office in the South in 1873.

Colfax Massacre

300

System where many formerly enslaved African Americans and poor white farmers worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops. 

Sharecropping

300

This Constitutional amendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.

14th Amendment

300

This event marked the end of Presidential Reconstruction.

Assassination of President Lincoln 

300

This reconstruction was marked by Supreme Courts cases that reversed the progress being made. 

Radical Reconstruction 

300
This person became the first African American Senator 

Hiram Revels 

300

What two films promoted the Lost Cause Ideology?

"Birth of a Nation" and "Gone with the Wind"

400

These tests required voters to read and interpret complex texts. They were created as a way to unfairly fail African Americans and not allow them to vote. 

Literacy Test

400

The court ruled that the 14th amendment did not protect individual citizens from violence committed by private citizens. 

United States v. Cruikshank

400

These military forces were stationed in the South to enforce new laws, protect formerly enslaved African Americans, and maintain order after the Civil War.

Federal Troops 

400

This government agency provided food, education, medical care, and assistance to formerly enslaved people and poor Southerners during Reconstruction.

Freedmen's Bureau 

400

This allowed individuals to bypass literacy tests and poll taxes if their ancestors had the right to vote before the Civil War.

Grandfather Clauses 

400

This ideology or mythology promoted the false idea that the South were victims and slavery was not bad.

Lost Cause Ideology 

500

The name of the additional charge or fee required in order to vote. 

Poll Tax

500

This court case legalized/created the separate but equal" law that legalized segregation.

Plessy v Ferguson 

500

This reconstruction saw a period of advancement for African Americans, including creation of HBCUs, the of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

Presidential Reconstruction 

500

Form of violence used White Supremacits to invoke fear and submission upon African Americans.  

Lynching

500
She was an investigative reporter who highlighted the violence and lynching occurring in the South. 

Ida B. Wells 

500

What social movement was created to highlight the social injustice against African Americans for over 400 years?

Black Lives Matter