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Congress declared it was illegal to interefere with elections because of this group.
What is the KKK?
100
Allowed low-ranking former Confederates to hold public office 1872 and brought about the end of many Reconstruction reforms
What is change southern state governments?
100
Direct effect of the Compromise of 1877
What is removal of federal troops from the South?
100
Southerners who attempted to limit the rights of African Americans by establishing laws to limit their activities
Who are the Redeemers?
100
Jim Crow laws enforced this system of discrimination
What is the segregation?
200
The verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson legalized...
What is "separate-but-equal?"
200
Democrats who brought their party back to power in the South.
Who were the Redeemers?
200
Readmission of former Confederate states into the Union
What was the main goal of Reconstruction?
200
Organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
Required a majority of Southern males take an oath of loyalty
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
300
Provided former slaves freedom from slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Lincoln's main vision for for Reconstruction
What is reunite the nation?
300
President Andrew Johnson's plan for wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials included this
What is amnesty?
300
Laws passed that limited the freedom of black people
What were Black Codes?
300
Reason that Southern whites felt that Black Codes were justified
What is government was intended only for white men?
400
Protected the right of African American men to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
Northern-born Republican office-holders in the South.
What are "carpetbaggers"?
400
The KKK was created in response to this
What is suffrage for African Americans?
400
Period in History of the Southern United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country is deemed to have been worse than in any other period after the American Civil War.
What was the "nadir of American race relations?"
400
Governments looked the other way and did little to stop this group
Why was the KKK not stopped?
500
Most lived in a cycle of debt, first buying goods on credit and then failing to make much money selling their crops.
What is a sharecropper? OR What is debt peonage?
500
Amendment passed by Congress in 1865 made slavery illegal.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
Leader of the Radical Republicans from Pennsylvania who wanted to better the lives of African Americans and poor white southerners.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
500
Amendment granting citizenship to African Americans.
What is the Fourteenth?
500
A criminal act of hanging a person to kill them without the benefit of a trial
What is lynching?