Amendments
Which amendment to the Constitution was most significant in establishing citizenship rights for formerly enslaved people?
14th Amendment
The Black Codes passed by Southern states after the Civil War were designed to:
Encourage African Americans to move North
Help freed slaves find employment
Limit the freedom and rights of formerly enslaved people
Protect the voting rights of African Americans
3. Limit the freedom and rights of formerly enslaved people
What was the primary purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
To help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom through education and assistance
What was the term for a system of farming that put former slaves and poor whites into debt for the rest of their lives?
Sharecroppping
This president had a plan for Reconstruction that involved 10% of the South taking an oath and was very lenient
Abraham Lincoln
What did the 15th Amendment accomplish?
Gave African American men the right to vote
What was the cost for voting that was illegally charged to black voters in the South?
Poll Tax
This word means the right to vote
What was the name of people who moved from the North to the South for political gain or money?
Carpetbaggers
This is what a draft of law is called before it is put into place
A bill
What did the 13th Amendment do?
What was an exam that checked if voters could read but was completely unfair?
Literacy test
This word means to leave, especially a group leaving a country to make their own nation
secede
The KKK was what kind of organization?
Extremist
Grassroots
Political
Peaceful
1. Extremist
This is the action a president can take to reject a new law
Veto
This Amendment gave citizenship to those born or naturalized int he US
14th Amendment
What law stated that if a person's father or father's father could vote, then that person could vote?
Grandfather clause
In sharecropping, the landowner would legally rent land and what other item to their farm workers?
Seed
What was the Lost Cause?
A myth that the Confederacy promoted trying to convince people their reasons for war were not about slavery
Which former Union general became president?
Ulysses S. Grant
This Amendment gave the right to vote to all male citizens
15th Amendment
Secret Society that emerged after the Civil War and used violence to prevent former enslaved people from having rights
KKK
What specific set of laws, not Black Codes, enforced segregation and discrimination in public places?
Jim Crow Laws
What was the name for Southerners who took advantage of the poor for political power or money?
Scalawags
Which President won their election in the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes