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He was the President at the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Reconstruction era.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This constitutional amendment granted voting rights to black men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This was another name for Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction.
What is the "10% Plan?"
This term refers to a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
What is a Carpetbagger?
This is the name of the white supremacist group that terrorized black people across the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK?
He was the General for the Confederate army, but after his surrender called for white southerners to “unite in the restoration of the country, and the reestablishment of peace & harmony.”
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This is the name given to the series of laws passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War to restrict the rights of Black people.
What are Black Codes?
This term refers to a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction.
What is a scalawag?
He became the 17th president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
He was the General of the Union Army and went on to become the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This constitutional amendment guarantees equal protection under the law to all citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts.
What is the Dred Scott case?
This term refers to a arrangement where a tenant would work a landowner's land in exchange for a share of the crops produced, plus living accommodations. It was not much different that slavery.
What is sharecropping?
Celebrated ever June 19th, this federal holiday commemorates the day the last slave was freed.
What is Juneteenth?
He was born free in North Carolina and would later become the first black member of the United States Senate?
Who is Hiram Revels?
This constitutional amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate, but equal facilities” based on race was constiutional, leading to the rise of Jim Crow laws across the South.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This term refers to the practice of restricting people to certain areas of residence or to separate institutions (e.g., schools, churches) and facilities (parks, playgrounds, restaurants, restrooms) on the basis of race or alleged race.
What is segregation?
This is the name of the laws created across the South after the Reconstruction Era ended.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
He was born into slavery, but escaped to freedom and went on write publications detailing the horrors of slavery while advocating for the rights of black Americans.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are also known by this name.
What are "The Reconstruction Amendments"
After a the 1876 election was rigged, this political agreement was also called "The Great Betrayal" and subsequently ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This term refers to the belief that white people are a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups.
What is white supremacy?
This organization was formed to help formerly enslaved people with housing, jobs, education and locating their family members who may have been sold to other plantations.
What is the Freedmans Bureau?