Reconstruction Era Laws
Southern Society
Reconstruction Amendments
Reconstruction Vocabulary
Reconstruction-Pourri
Reconstruction People
100

This was a southern law requiring African-Americans to pay a fee in order to vote.

 What are Poll Taxes?

100

Legal separation of people according to their race. 

What is segregation?

100

This amendment abolished slavery in the United States. 

What was the Thirteenth Amendment?

100

The period lasted from 1865 through 1877.

What is Reconstruction?

100

His plan was called the Ten Percent Plan.

Who is Abraham Lincoln? 

100

This President was elected in 1868 with the help of half a million black voters.

Ulysses S. Grant

200

Name these Southern laws requiring people to prove they could read before they could vote. 

What are Literacy Test laws?

200

A term used for Northerners who traveled to live and work in the South after the Civil War. 

What are Carpetbaggers?

200

Name the final of the Reconstruction Amendments.

What is the Fifteenth Amendment?

200

The process of bringing a formal charge against a president.

Impeach

200

His plan allowed former Confederate military and political leaders to ask for amnesty and pardons.

Who is Andrew Johnson?

200

The sadistic founder of the first Ku Klux Klan

Who is Nathan Bedford Forrest

300

Hey there! We are southern laws that limited what Freedmen could do and where they could live and work. 

What are Black Codes?

300

A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation, and violence to take away African-Americans' rights. 

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

300

This amendment granted freedmen citizenship.

What is the Fourteenth Amendment?

300

This was the name for a newly freed African-American.

What is a Freedman?

300

Name of the theater where President Lincoln was shot.

Ford's Theater

300

This was the first African-American senator. 

Who was Hiram Revels? 

400

These laws were passed during Grant's presidency to combat/fight against violence against African Americans.

Enforcement Acts

400

An (often unfair) agreement to rent farmland in exchange for part of the crops grown on the land. In this arrangement, the renter owned the crops they planted and made their own decisions about them.

Sharecropping

400

The cubed root of 2197 is this number amendment.

What is the Thirteenth Amendment?

400

This was a group of politicians who wanted to punish the South and protect the rights of Freedmen after the Civil War.

Who are the Radical Republicans?

400

The Supreme Court Case that legalized the Jim Crow system of segregation in the South

What is Plessy v. Ferguson

400

The Compromise of 1877 made him President.

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes? 

500

This law allowed a person to vote if his older family members could vote before the Civil War.

What is the Grandfather Clause? 

500

Southerners who supported Reconstruction were called this name.

What are scalawags?

500

In roman numerals, if you subtract LXXXVI from C, what number amendment remains?

What is the Fourteenth Amendment?

500

This is another word for a government pardon

Amnesty

500

The last Southern state to join the Union after the South had been "redeemed" from Black Republican state governments

What is South Carolina

500

This was the Democratic oppononent of Rutherford B. Hayes in the election of 1876.

Samuel Tilden