Unit 1 Review: Reconstruction

Legislation

100

This amendment abolished slavery — unless the person was convicted of a crime.

13th Amendment

 

200

These state-level laws aimed to restrict the rights and movements of Black Americans after the Civil War.

Black Codes 

300

Congress criticized this President for vetoing the Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights legislation.

Andrew Johnson

Race and Labor

100

A system where freedpeople worked land in exchange for a share of the crops, often leading to debt.

Sharecropping

200

A labor system that leased out imprisoned Black men to private companies.

Convict Lease System

300

This clause in the 13th Amendment enabled forced labor if someone had done this.

Committed a crime

Progress

100

Name three rights Black Americans gained during Reconstruction 

freedom from slavery, citizenship, voting 

200

This agency created hospitals and schools for Freedpeople but they were often low on funding 

Freedmen's Bureau 

300

This city in North Carolina was the home of a large African American middle class 

Wilmington 

Backlash

100

This group used terror to suppress Black political participation and education.

Ku Klux Klan

200

These white Democrats sought to restore White Supremacy through the Mississippi Plan

Redeemers

300

Name three methods of voter disenfranchisement

Poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause

Compromises

100

Which event officially ended Reconstruction 

Compromise of 1877

200

The Compromise of 1877 allowed which political party to take back control of the South?

Democratic Party

300

What compromise occurred with the Compromise of 1877?

Democrats gave the Presidency to the Republicans so Union troops would leave the South