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President at the start of Reconstruction who DID NOT support freedmen's rights
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Led by Andrew Johnson, this phase of Reconstruction saw Confederate leaders re-elected to state governments. They then passed the Black Codes.
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
The economic situation of the South at the end of the Civil War (use any descriptive word)
What is in ruins, destroyed, etc.?
The term for laws that established legal segregation at the end of Reconstruction
What is Jim Crow?
President for most of Congressional Reconstruction; he was a weak leader but supported freedmen's political equality
Who is U.S. Grant?
Led by Radical Republicans, this phase of Reconstruction saw the passage of laws to give Freedmen the right to vote and other political rights.
What is Congressional Reconstruction?
Protected black men's right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
What is a sharecropper?
This organization caused terror throughout the South and prevented Black Americans from exercising their rights.
What is the KKK?
She launched a campaign against lynching by researching, publishing and speaking out
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This SCOTUS case saw the establishment of 'separate but equal'
What is Plessy v. Ferguson? OR
What is the Plessy decision?
These people were northern Republicans that moved south; sometimes to profit from Reconstruction, sometimes to help freedmen.
Who are carpetbaggers?
A major scandal that caused Northerners to shift support from the Republican to Democratic Party, who did not support Reconstruction policies that supported Freedmen.
What is Credit Mobilier?
Founder of the Tuskegee institute, he advocated for Southern Black Americans to gain economic sufficiency by learning a skilled trade before working for equal rights.
Who was Booker T Washington?
This Supreme Court Case overturned the doctrine of 'separate but equal'
What is Brown v. Board?
Two ways that the 15th Amendment was limited after Reconstruction
(2 of these 3):
What are poll taxes, grandfather clauses and literacy tests?
*Daily Double* The Credit Mobilier scandal and the Panic of 1873 were both tied to what major industry in the United States?
What are railroads?
One positive, long term impact of Reconstruction, which still exist today.
What are historically Black Colleges and Universities?
President of the NAACP and editor of the 'Crisis', he advocated full and immediate equality for Black Americans, including the right to vote and access to higher education.
WEB DuBois
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Two out of the three Reconstruction Amendments that protected practices that had already begun, at least in some areas of the country.
What is 15th? (Southern black voting a practice in 1868, 2 years before passage of this Amendment)
What is 13th? (Emancipation Proclamation already free 3.8 out of 4.2 million enslaved people)
This term (from your textbook) resulted from sharecropping; it means someone who can't leave the land they work until they pay off their debts.
What is debt peonage?
Daily Double: Name of the book OR author, published in 1941, that exposed the system of sharecropping and humanized the people who survived it.
Who is Richard Wright OR what is 12 Million Black Voices?