African American Restrictions
What law was passed in Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Jim crow laws (segregation)
How did Andrew Johnson become President?
He became president after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
What was Reconstruction?
It was the process of readmitting the South to the country and gaining freedom for former slaves.
What was the 13th amendment?
It abolished slavery(made slavery illegal) throughout the U.S.
What were Carpetbaggers?
Northern republicans who moved to the South after the war, to profit off if Reconstruction.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
Legalized segregation and led to unequal treatment for African Americans.
What was the 10% plan?
Lincoln’s plan where 10% of the South had to sware an oath.
How did the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) challenge Reconstruction?
They resisted reconstruction and terrorized African Americans and their rights.
What did the Freedman’s Bureau provide, and for whom?
It provided relief for freed slaves in the South.
What were Scalawags?
A name white southern republicans were given.
What were the Black codes?
Laws that limited freedom for African Americans.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
It was where southerners who supported confederacy could not vote/hold office.
What was the panic of 1873?
It was a stock market crash, and financial crisis, which caused depression.
What did the 14th amendment enable?
It enabled protection of rights for people born or naturalized in the U.S.
Why did many African Americans become trapped in debt?
Because very few achieved lived in cycle of debt.
What was the KKK(Ku Klux Klan)?
White southerners that terrorized African Americans and their rights.
What law did Johnson oppose?
He opposed equal rights and citizenship for African Americans.
Why did Northerners no longer have support for Reconstruction?
Because they shifted their focus from Civil rights, to wanting the economy fixed, and focused on that.
What was the 15th amendment?
A law that enabled African American men to vote.
Why did Congress divide the South into five military districts in 1867?
To remain in control until states rejoined the U.S.
What was poll tax?
A tax African Americans had to pay before voting and made the Grandfather clause so African Americans couldn’t vote.
Why was Johnson impeached by the House of Representatives?
Because he tried to oppose equal rights for African Americans.
Why did Reconstruction end?
The Compromise of 1877 brought to violence in the South, which ended Reconstruction.
What did the Civil rights Act of 1866 provide for African Americans and why was it made?
It provided African Americans that same right as other citizens, and it was made to protect citizenship and equal treatment under the law.
What important event occurred at Appomattox Court House?
General Lee surrendered at the end of the civil war.