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100

A fee paid to a state government in order to vote. These taxes prevented African-Americans and Native Americans, as well as poor Whites who immigrated to the South from voting in elections.

What is a poll tax?

100

Enslaved African Americans freed from slavery

What is Freedmen?

100

A solemn promise, often invoking a divine witness, regarding one's future action or behavior.

What is an oath?

100

A thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed.

What is Reconstruction?

100
The murder of a prominent or important person, such as a president, politician, or member of a royal family.

What is an assassination?

200

An area of a country or city, seen as a distinct unit because of a particular characteristic.

What is a district?

200

A white supremacist terrorist group that emerged during Reconstruction.

What is the Ku Klux Klan or the KKK?

200

The amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery in the United States.

What is the 13th Amendment?

200
A holiday celebrated on June 19th to celebrated when the last enslaved people were emancipated in 1865 in Galveston, Texas.

What is Juneteenth?

200

Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution.)

What is abolish?

300
A test that measures a person's ability to read and write. These tests were used in the voter registration process in Southern states of the US to prevent Black people from voting.

What is a literacy test?

300

A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.

What is a vagrant?

300

To sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it official.

What is ratify?

300
A government organization created in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people in getting land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.

What is Freedmen's Bureau?

300

To charge the holder of a public office with misconduct - the first step in removing an official from a political office.

What is impeach?

400

The Constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.

What is the 15th Amendment?

400

A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction.

What is a Carpetbagger?

400

The Constitutional Amendment that granted citizenship to all former enslaved African Americans.

What is the 14th Amendment?

400

A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent to the owner of that land that is being farmed.

What is a sharecropper?

400
When Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations. Prisoners earned no pay and faced dangerous and deadly conditions while the states and private companies profited.

What is convict-leasing?

500

***DOUBLE JEOPARDY***

The year that women got the right to vote in the United States.

What is the 1920?

500

A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.

What is a Scalawag?

500

***DOUBLE JEOPARDY***
The constitutional amendment changed the voting age to what it is currently - 18 years old.

What is the 26th Amendment?

500
Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished.

What are Black Codes?

500

***DOUBLE JEOPARDY***

The political and racial justice movement that came as a result of racist policies and systems created during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow Eras.

What is the Civil Rights Movement?