Reconstruction Basics
This period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and bringing former Confederate states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Formerly enslaved people were often called this after emancipation.
What are freedmen?
This white supremacist group used violence and intimidation against African Americans and their allies.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Reconstruction officially ended in this year.
What is 1877?
Reconstruction began after this major U.S. conflict ended in 1865.
What is the Civil War?
This amendment granted citizenship to people born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Many African Americans created these institutions to educate children and adults after the Civil War.
What are schools?
Southern laws that separated people by race later became known as these.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This disputed presidential election helped lead to the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Election of 1876?
This president’s assassination changed the direction of Reconstruction.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Many freed people searched for these relatives after the Civil War separated families.
Who were family members?
Many white Southerners resisted Reconstruction because they wanted to restore this social and political system.
What is white supremacy?
This agreement helped settle the Election of 1876 and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This president took office after Lincoln and often clashed with Congress over Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The 14th Amendment promised citizens equal protection under this.
What is the law?
This farming system kept many African Americans and poor whites in debt.
What is sharecropping?
This term described Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction, often to help rebuild or gain political power.
What are carpetbaggers?
After Reconstruction ended, many Southern states passed laws that limited African Americans’ ability to do this.
What is vote?
This group in Congress wanted stronger protections for formerly enslaved people.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The 15th Amendment said voting rights could not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of this.
What is servitude?
These laws restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.
What were Black Codes?
This term described white Southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction.
What are scalawags?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used to prevent African Americans from exercising this right.
What is the right to vote?
This federal agency helped formerly enslaved people with food, schools, jobs, and legal support.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Together, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are often called these because they expanded rights after the Civil War.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
During Reconstruction, African Americans participated in government by voting and holding these.
What are political offices?
Congress passed these laws to combat Klan violence and protect African Americans’ rights.
What are Enforcement Acts?
Reconstruction’s legacy includes expanded constitutional rights but also the failure to fully protect this.
What is equality?