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Constitution
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Progress/End of Reconstruction
100
The Amendment that outlawed slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
A white Republican who was native to Louisiana
What is a scalawag?
100
An event that happened during Reconstruction. Freedmen seized control of the town of Colfax, armed themselves and readied for a fight. White men attacked on Easter Sunday. 100 freedmen killed, 3 white people killed.
What is the Colfax Riot?
100
A plan that stated 10% of people who had voted in the election of 1860 had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union, and state had to agree to abolish slavery to be admitted back into the Union
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan or Presidential Reconstruction?
100
This government agency was created to give emergency relief to poor Southerners, set up schools for former slaves, and regulated labor relations between former slaves and their employers to prevent them from being mistreated
What is the Freemens' Bureau
200
The Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
A white Northerner who came to Louisiana to be involved in Reconstruction, most were former Union soldiers
What is a carpetbagger?
200
A group that formed in opposition to the Radical Republicans. They were anti-black and anti-Catholic.
What is the KKK?
200
This plan was similar to Lincoln's 10% Plan in that it wanted Southern states to be readmitted to the Union quickly and did not want to punish the Southern states for seceding
What is Johnson's Plan?
200
This Louisiana State Constitution ended segregation in public places
What is the Constitution of 1868
300
The Amendment that gave African American men equal rights and gave them citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
A farmer took out a loan, and to pay it back, agreed to give the lender a percentage of their crop
What is a crop lien?
300
An event that happened during Reconstruction. The White League captured Repbulicans in Red River Parish that had been giving rights to African Americans. They killed five out of six of the Republicans.
What is the Coushatta Massacre?
300
This plan was largely unpopular due to the fact that it pardoned former Confederates, allowing them to get back into politics and retake control of state legislatures
What is Johnson's Plan?
300
The first African American governor in Louisiana (and America)
Who is PBS Pinchback?
400

The Louisiana State Constitution that ended segregation by prohibiting discrimination in public places, guaranteed all children access to free public education in integrated schools, and gave black men the right to vote

What is the Constitution of 1868?
400

Workers got part of crop in exchange for working the land for the farmer; a bad system because workers did not get money if they could not sell their crop, needed supplies to farm, got into inescapable debt 

What is sharecropping?
400
White League memebers gathered in New Orleans and attacked the Republican government. They seized the state house and pushed the governor out. President Grant had to send US troops to end this. A monument honoring this event was removed from New Orleans last year.
What is the Battle of Liberty Place?
400
This is a plan that thought the South should be punished for seceding and causing the war
What is Radical Reconstruction?
400
This ended the dispute over the election of 1876. Stated that Rutherford B Hayes would become president, and to appease the South, he would pull Union troops out of the South and end Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500

The Louisiana State Constitution that abolished slavery, gave access to free public education for African American boys, gave the legislature power to grant voting rights to freedmen


What is the Constitution of 1864?
500
Political party made up of generally white Southerners who did not support rights for African Americans during Reconstruction
What is the democratic party?
500
An event that happened during Reconstruction. The state legislature gathered to consider giving voting rights and citizenship to African Americans. Freedmen gathered in support, white people gathered against this. Violence broke out. African Americans and white Republicans were murdered by the crowd.
What is the Mechanics Institute Riot?
500
These are a set of acts created by Radical Repbulicans that required states to ratify the 14th Amendment and register former slaves to vote before they could be readmitted to the Union, it also put the South under military control and took voting rights away from the Confederates 
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
500
This was the man who became governor of Louisiana after the election of 1876
Who is Francis T Nicholls?