To preserve the Union and end the Civil War as quickly as possible
100
What is segregation?
The separation of blacks and whites
100
Explain Sharecropping
Freedmen and poor whites were paid in shares for their work they did on the farm
100
How did the Reconstruction effect African Americans?
They were freed, given citizenship, and the right to vote
100
What did the 13th Amendment do?
abolished slavery
200
What was Johnson's Aim for the Reconstruction?
to humiliate the Southern Elite
200
Explain the Jim Crow Laws, how did they enforce segregation?
Laws that enforced segregation, or the separation of blacks and whites. Blacks could not sit with whites on trains or stay in certain hotels. They were passed to keep whites in power over African Americans.
200
how was sharecropping different from slavery?
African Americans were given a home, land, shares of the crop, and some money. In slavery African Americans did not get any of these things.
200
How did the Reconstruction Effect the Southern Elite?
They entered into sharecropping relationships with freed men
200
What did the 14th amendment do?
Granted African Americans citizenship
300
What was Congress' Aim for the Reconstruction?
Slaves would indeed be free, the War had not been fought in vain, Freedman’s Bureau
300
What Supreme Court Case created the law "separate but equal"?
Plessy V. Ferguson
300
Explain the Ku Klux Klan, what were their goals?
A terrorist group that used violence and intimidation to maintain white superiority and keep freed slaves from gaining equal rights
300
How were poor whites effected by the Reconstruction?
They were given a political voice for the first time
300
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave African American men the right to vote
400
What was the Aim of the Southern Elite for the Reconstruction?
To not change their way of life (wanted to be superior to African Americans)
400
Explain the Supreme Court Case Plessy V. Ferguson. What was the outcome and what did that mean for African Americans?
An African American man entered a whites-only section of a train car and was arrested. He was found guilty of breaking the law. This case created the law that separate facilities were legal if they were equal.
400
Explain the Black Codes, how did they effect African Americans?
Laws that were established in the South that limited the rights of African Americans. The Black Codes kept African Americans in positions of social and economic inferiority,
400
How were Northerner's effected by the Reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers moved to the South to take advantage of them and start businesses
500
What were African American's Aim for the Reconstruction?
establish communities and churches, equal citizenship, land, education, independ
500
Explain the Freedmen’s Bureau, what did they provide to African Americans?
Created by Congress to give African Americans food, clothing, medical care, education and protection from the hostile environment of the South
500
Who were scalawags and what did they do during the Reconstruction?
Poor whites cooperated with the Republican government in the South, and they remained in a position of inferiority.
Some poor whites entered into sharecropping or tenant farming relationships with landowners
500
Define discrimination
the unfair treatment of different people on the grounds of race, age, or gender.