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100
The Civil War ended on what date?
When is April 9, 1865?
100
When was President Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
When is April 14, 1865?
100
How many slaves were freed after the Civil War?
4,000,000
100
Organization set up by Congress in 1865 to help former slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
These were the other 2 types of small farmers besides sharecroppers.
What are tenant farmers and yeoman farmers?
200
What is one thing that the Freedmen's Bureau did?
It gave them food and supplies to freed slaves. It built schools and hospitals. It helped some white farmers rebuild theri farms. It educated free slaves to read and write.
200
When a land owner gave a worker a cabin, tools, and seed to farm his land. At harvest the landowner took part of the crops, plus enough to cover cost of rent and supplies of worker.
What is sharecropping?
200
A time of rebuilding the nation (the U.S.) after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
200
1865-1877
What year did Reconstruction begin and what year did it end?
200
12 years
How long did Reconstruction last?
300
Amendment that said slavery is abolished (no more slavery).
What is the 13th amendment?
300
This amendment said that freed slaves were now citizens and had equal rights.
What is the 14th amendment?
300
This amendment gave former slaves the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
300
How many African Americans had become members of Congress by 1877?
16
300
1) made it hard for African Americans to vote, 2) allowed segregation, 3) made it hard for African Americans to get jobs, 4) made it hard for them to travel freely, 5) forbid them from owning property.
What are black codes?
400
a secret organization that hated blacks and other minorities and tried to keep African Americans from having rights as free people; lynched, beat, and burned people.
What is the KKK?
400
Congress did away with new state government and put army in control, wrote new state constitution giving ALL men the right to vote, passed 14th amendment, abolished black codes.
What are 3 things that Congress did to make the Southern states abide by the new laws?
400
They raised property taxes.
How did the Southern states raise the money to build the Reconstruction projects? (new school, railroads, hospitals, etc.)
400
People who support something for their own gain.
What are scalawags?
400
Northerners who came south to try to help with Reconstruction or to make money buying land or opening businesses.
What are carpetbaggers?
500
This group of people still did not have the right to vote after Reconstruction.
Who are women?
500
This law required African Americans to pay a fee before voting.
What are poll taxes?
500
This law made it so African Americans had to know how to read in order to vote.
What is a literacy test?
500
Separation of blacks and whites.
What is segregation?
500
This person took over as president after Abe Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?