Amendments
This Amendment abolished the institution of slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A Unionist Southern Democrat and 17th President of the United States. He was impeached over violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This conflict between the North and South led to Reconstruction.
What is the Civil War?
They were a political group demanding racial equality and harsher consequences for Southern States.
What are Radical Republicans?
A discriminatory policy targeting black voters that required voters to pass a reading and writing test before they could vote.
What is a literacy test?
This Amendment gave all men in the United States universal suffrage.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This former president's plan for Reconstruction would have seen the integration of Southern States carried out quickly and with little consequences for the former Confederate States. He was assassinated before his plan could be carried out.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Era marks the time following the Civil War in which the Southern States were reintegrated into the Union.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
These 3 Amendments were passed in order to afford Black Americans civil rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
A discriminatory policy targeting black voters that required voters to pay a fee in order to caste their ballot.
What is a poll tax?
This Amendment made all former slaves citizens of the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This domestic terrorist group was formed to intimidate and harasses black voters.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Many sharecroppers were formally ______.
What are slaves?
This political party was affiliated with the KKK during the Reconstruction Era.
What is the Democratic Party?
A series of laws passed DURING Reconstruction that made it easier to discriminate against African Americans.
What are the Black Codes?
This Amendment gave Freed Slaves due process and equal protection.
18th President of the United States and former leader of the Union Army who's administration was plagued by scandal.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
Popular form of agriculture in which farmer's would borrow land to grow crops in exchange for a certain percentage of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
Reconstruction is considered to have ended when this group of people were removed from the South.
Who are the US Federal troops?
A series of laws passed AFTER Reconstruction that started formal segregation in the United States.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This Amendment needed to be ratified in order for Southern States to re-join the Union.
What is the 14th Amendment?
He became the 19th president after promising to remove federal troops from the South which would end Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
The name given to the farms being run by sharecroppers.
What are tenant farms?
Discrimination practices are carried out in the South during Reconstruction to stop African Americans from ______.
What is voting?
This allowed people to get around voting mandates like the poll tax or literacy tests if their grandfathers had the right to vote before the Civil War.
What is the Grandfather Clause?