Reconstruction Era Laws
A southern law requiring African Americans to pay a fee in order to vote
What were Poll Taxes?
Legal separation of people according to their race.
What is segregation?
This Amendment banned slavery in the United States.
What was the 13th Amendment?
The 11 year period following the Civil War in the South.
What was Reconstruction?
His plan was called the Ten Percent Plan.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Democratic president at the beginning of Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Southern laws requiring people to prove they could read before they could vote.
What were Literacy Test laws?
A term used for Northerners who traveled to live and work in the South after the Civil War.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
These three amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
Offers 160 acres of frontier land to those who want to settle in the west; must pay a small fee and live on it for at least 5 years
What is Homestead Act?
His plan allowed former Confederate military and political leaders to ask for amnesty and pardons.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
To willfully break away (ie. South Carolina).
Secede?
Southern laws that limited what Freedmen could do and where they could live and work.
What were the Black Codes?
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation, and violence to take away African Americans' rights.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Newly freed African Americans.
Who were the Freedmen?
This group's plan required southern states to abolish slavery and give all men the right to vote.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This president made great strides in destroying the KKK.
Who was US Grant?
Laws that broke the south into 5 military districts
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What were the Reconstruction Acts?
An (often unfair) agreement to rent farmland in exchange for part of the crops grown on the land.
What was sharecropping?
This amendment granted all persons born in the U.S. or naturalized in the U.S. full citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
policies that limited freedom of the freedmen.
What were the Black Codes?
He proposed a law to take away land in the South and give it to Freedmen in 40 acre farms.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the United States during Reconstruction
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A law that allowed a person to vote if his older family members could vote before the Civil War.
What was the Grandfather Clause?
A southern term for white southerners who supported Reconstruction.
Who were scalawags?
This amendment guarantees equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Abolitionist that raided Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
Native Americans lose over 90 million acres; divide lands into individual allotments and sell the excess to others
What is the Dawes Act?
The first African-American US Senator.
Who was Hiram Revels?