What is the political party most black voters joined?
100
Seeing former slaves voting and holding public offices.
What bothered southerners most about their Reconstruction?
100
Birmingham, Alabama
What became a major iron-making center?
200
Southern states had to create new governments that were loyal to the Union and that respected federal authority.Slavery had to be abolished once and for all.
What were the aims of reconstruction?
200
Split the south into five military districts.
What did the military reconstruction act do?
200
1/4
What number of African Americans were elected as delegates?
200
Forgiveness for past offenses.
What is the definition of amnesty?
200
Homer Plessy
Who was arrested for refusing to bey a Jim Crow law?
300
A Louisiana lawmaker
Who said " it made no sense to educate any but the superior race of the man- the White race."
300
Bringing the high office of President into contempt, ridicule, and disgrace, to the scandal lives of all good citizens.
What is President Johnson charged with?
300
1860-1870
What time period did souths taxes increase to 400%?
300
Allowing Hayes to become president in return, the southern states have the right to control their own affairs.
What is the Compromise of 1877
300
Literacy test.
What test did some southern states require before voting?
400
Howard University in Washington D.C.
What is a university that provided education for African Americans.
400
One third to one half of their crops back to landowners.
What did sharecroppers rent their land from plantation owners in exchange for?
400
He is from Pennsylvania.
Where is congressman James G. Blaine from?
400
Act of 1872
When was the Amnesty Act?
400
The Democrats did so when they returned to power.
Which party reversed these laws to segregation?
500
Forty-acre plots
What is the amount of land distributed to freedmen.
500
7 Republicans 12 Democrats.
How many Democrats and Republicans voted President Johnson not guilty.
500
The Georgia constitution.
What constitution stated schools should be "forever free to all the state."
500
South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida.
What three states did the Democrats did not regain control of?
500
A Jim Crow bible for colored witnesses to kiss.
What is one of the silly suggestions from South Carolina that soon became a law?