Reconstruction Era Laws
This was a southern law requiring African-Americans to pay a fee in order to vote.
What are Poll Taxes?
Legal separation of people according to their race.
What is segregation?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
Lincoln's goal before the civil war began
keep the union together
Won the election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
led the raid at Harpers Ferry
John Brown
Name these Southern laws requiring people to prove they could read before they could vote.
What are Literacy Test laws?
A term used for Northerners who traveled to live and work in the South after the Civil War.
What are Carpetbaggers?
Name the Reconstruction Amendment that was about voting.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
belief that God intended and provided for westward movement
Compromise of 1850
This male former slave fought for all people to have full, equal legal rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This law allowed the Federal government to punish people who tried to take away freedmen's rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan Act?
(Force Acts)
An (often unfair) agreement to rent farmland in exchange for part of the crops grown on the land. In this arrangement, the renter owned the crops they planted and made their own decisions about them.
Tennent Farming or Sharecropping
This was a group of politicians who wanted to punish the South and protect the rights of Freedmen after the Civil War.
Radical Republicans
After what battle did Lincoln propose the Emancipation Proclamation?
Antietem
Law that brought a train and popular sovereignty into the midwest
Kansas Nebraska Act
Preston Brooks beat him for his senate speech against slavery
Charles Sumner
Hey there! We are southern laws that limited what Freedmen could do and where they could live and work.
What are Black Codes?
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation, and violence to take away African-Americans' rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This amendment granted freedmen citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This was the name for a newly freed African-American.
What is a Freedman?
Supreme court case that determined Blacks were not citizens and could not sue in a court of law
This was the first African-American senator.
Who was Hiram Revels?
Respect your elders! This law allowed a person to vote if his older family members could vote before the Civil War.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Southerners who supported Reconstruction were called this name.
What are scalawags?
Rutherford B Hayes
These laws replaced slavery in southern states defining what freedmen and freedwomen could and could not do.
Black Codes
He proposed a law to close slavery to all new territory gained in the Mexican American War.
David Wilmot
Led the Mormons into Utah
Brigham Young