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Laws
Election of 1877
KKK
Black Codes
Miscellaneous
100
Made slavery illegal throughout the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment.
100
Rutherford B. Hayes
Who was the Republican candidate?
100
1866
When was the Ku Klux Klan formed?
100
Possession of weapons, renting an apartment in the city, or holding public meetings.
What were things prohibited under the Black Codes?
100
Landowners provided the land, tools, and supplies, and people provided the labor.
What is sharecropping?
200
Freed slaves only in the Confederate states that had been unoccupied by Union forces.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
200
Tilden.
Who was the Democratic candidate?
200
They were against the African Americans gaining suffrage.
What is the reason the KKK formed?
200
1 year's work without pay.
What was the punishment for an African American who did not have a job?
200
Textile mills.
What was the most successful industrial development in the South?
300
The Poll Tax.
What was required to be paid before an individual could vote.
300
They thought he would help win votes in the North.
Why was Hayes selected as the Republican candidate?
300
Elected officials.
Who did the KKK persecute?
300
A farm laborer or servant.
What jobs were available for African Americans?
300
Women and children.
Who did the mill owners mainly hire?
400
Restricted the civil rights of African Americans.
What were the black codes?
400
3 Southern states.
Which voting results did the Republicans question?
400
As African Americans were elected to power the whites lost power.
Why did the members of the KKK object to former slaves being elected to positions of power?
400
Southern white farmers.
Who were the Black Codes intended to help?
400
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the court case that endorsed segregation providing it was 'separate but equal' ?
500
Citizenship was granted to all except Native Americans.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
500
The Electoral College vote.
How did Hayes win?
500
Tennessee.
Where was the KKK first created?
500
How southern whites were excused from the literacy test.
What is the grandfather clause? If your father or grandfather were able to vote in the 1867 election, you were excused from taking the literacy test.
500
Building or repairing bridges, railroads, and public buildings.
What were some of the Reconstruction projects designed to rebuild the Southern economy?