Key Figures
This president took office after Lincoln's assassination and was lenient toward the South
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
This system tied freedmen to the land in a cycle of debt and poverty
What is sharecropping?
This white supremacist group used violence to intimidate African Americans and Republicans
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This act divided the South into military districts during Reconstruction
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
He was the Radical Republican leader in the Senate pushing for harsher Reconstruction
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
This amendment granted citizenship to all born or naturalized in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was a law requiring former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions and ratify amendments
What is the Reconstruction Act?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South
What are Jim Crow laws?
This African American became the first Black senator during Reconstruction
Who was Hiram Revels?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
This was the main crop in the South during Reconstruction
What is cotton?
This term refers to Southern whites who supported Reconstruction
Who were Scalawags?
This Union general enforced military Reconstruction in the South
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment was aimed at penalizing states that denied voting rights based on race
What is the 15th Amendment?
This group of Northerners moved South to seek economic opportunities during Reconstruction
Who were Carpetbaggers?
This was the political ideology opposing Reconstruction efforts
What is Southern Redeemer ideology?
She was a prominent African American educator during Reconstruction
Who was Charlotte Forten Grimké?
This amendment lowered voting age to 18
What is the 26th Amendment?
This was a major economic problem the South faced after the war
What is widespread destruction and poverty?
This Supreme Court case allowed "separate but equal" segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?