Vocabulary
A farmer who pays for using a piece of land with a
portion of a crop grown on that land
Sharecropper
The President during the Civil War, that was assassinated at the end of the War.
Abraham Lincoln
The Amendment that Abolished Slavery in the United States
13th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction.
The 10% Plan
Who was Jim Crow?
A character created in minstrel shows that portrayed Black Americans using racist stereotypes and offensive imagery.
Reconstruction
The years between 1865-1877 when the nation
reunited and rebuilt after the Civil War ended
Robert E. Lee asked his fellow Southerners to do what with the North at the conclusion of the Civil War.
Reconcile
Granted Voting Rights to Citizens in the United States
15th Amendment
The Republican and Democratic candidates for the Election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes & Samuel Tilden
What was one of the challenges of Reconstruction?
- Civil rights gains were not fully protected or enforced
- Sharecropping replaced slavery
- Racial violence and intimidation limited freedom
- Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws restricted rights
A change or addition to the U.S Constitution.
Amendment
Said the quote: "Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot"
Frederick Douglas
The use of poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause was the South's response to which Amendment?
15 Amendment
Made discrimination against African Americans legal in many communities and states in the South
Jim Crow Laws
What was the Compromise of 1877?
An agreement that ended Reconstruction by allowing Rutherford B. Hayes to become president in exchange for removing federal troops from the South (settled the Election of 1876 dispute)
Carpetbagger
A person from the North who went to the South
to help newly freed slaves.
The President that was a War Democrat at the beginning of Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
Granted African Americans protection as Citizens as well as Due Process
14th Amendment
The agreement that made Hayes President and removed troops from the South.
The Compromise of 1877
What ended Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
Amnesty
The act of forgiving people who broke the law.
Group in Congress that called for immediate & permanent abolishment of Slavery.
The Radical Republicans
Name the way the South tried to respond to the 13th Amendment
Sharecropping
The Supreme Court case that made segregation legal in the South.
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was one of the benefits of Reconstruction?
- Slavery ended
- Black Americans gained citizenship, voting rights
- Public school systems started in the South
- Freedmen's Bureau provided education/support