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Bonus!
Civil War Clean-Up
African American Advancement!
Segregation and Discrimination
The Right to Vote
100
Define "reconstruction." Why is it a term used for the period after the Civil War?
Reconstruction means rebuilding. After the devastation of the Civil War, the whole country needed to go through a period of rebuilding itself and adjusting to the new realities of former slaves becoming citizens.
100
This president required Southern states to completely rewrite their constitutions, ratify the 13th Amendment, and elect new officials before being admitted back into the Union.
Who is President Johnson?
100
This act struck down the black codes and gave freedmen full citizenship.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
100

Name one of the two major rights denied to African Americans by the Black Codes.

What is the right to vote and the opportunity to serve on a jury?

100
In the South, African Americans had to pass this test to be allowed to vote.
What is a literacy test?
200
What court case overturned "separate but equal" forever, allowing for the desegregation of schools?
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
200
This Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
This amendment made the Civil Rights Act part of the Constitution.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200

This compromise settled the disputed presidential election of 1876 by pulling all federal troops out of the south, leaving African Americans with even less protection and sending the message that "this is a white man's country."

What is the Compromise of 1877?

200
If an African American didn't have the money, they didn't get to vote because of this.
What is the poll tax?
300
Define "compromise"
An agreement that is made by both sides making concessions
300
Confederates were denied this right after the war until the Amnesty Act of1872.
What is the right to vote?
300
African Americans made up this percentage of office-holders during Reconstruction before Confederates were granted the right to vote again.
What is 1/5?
300

This court case defended the doctrine of "separate but equal" even though it was originally an attempt to end the Jim Crow Laws.

What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?

300
These acts made it illegal to prevent a person from voting.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
400

Define "secession." How does it relate to the Civil War?

To secede is to formally withdraw from membership. This is what the South tried to do by forming the Confederate States of America.

400
This president was assassinated by an angry Confederate only weeks after the end of the Civil War.
Who is President Lincoln?
400

This organization was established to help African Americans get jobs after the Civil War but was most successful at establishing schools for former slaves.

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

400
This set of laws in the South required separate facilities for whites and blacks, from bathrooms to restaurants to drinking fountains.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
400
This amendment to the Constitution declares that a citizen's right to vote will not be denied on account of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
Define "abolitionist"
Someone who wants to end (or "abolish") slavery.
500

Faced with freedom but no money or resources, many southern African Americans turned to this form of farm-sharing as a way to begin a new life. It deeply indebted most of them, though, locking many African Americans into lifelong poverty.

What is sharecropping?

500
In order to be readmitted to the Union, southern states technically had to guarantee this right to all men, regardless of race, as part of their new state constitution.
What is the right to vote?
500

This violent terrorist organization attacked African American office holders and brutally tried to prevent blacks from voting.

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

500
This act restored former Confederates' right to vote.
What is the Amnesty Act?