Reconstruction
A southern law requiring African Americans to pay a fee in order to vote
Poll Tax
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation and violence in an attempt to prevent African Americans from accessing their Constitutional rights.
Ku Klux Klan
Name given to the newly freed slaves.
Freedmen
The largest cotton trading and slave labor section of TN.
West TN
A siege on the Cumberland River that cut off Confederate supplies.
The Siege on Fort Donelson
Laws that created separate facilities based on race.
Jim Crow Laws
This act was issued by the TN governor to helps stop the violence against African Americans.
Ku Klux Klan Act
A school in Nashville that was exclusively for newly freed slaves.
Fisk Free School (Fisk University)
TN was divided into 3 section known as.
The Three Grand Divisions
The bloodiest Civil War battle in TN.
The Battle of Stones River
Southern states adopted these codes as a means of restricting the freedmen from exercising their full citizenship rights.
When an area is ruled by military force rather than police force.
Martial Law
Organization created by President Lincoln that helped newly freed slaves and those affected by the Civil War.
Freedman's Bureau
This section of TN voted strongly against slavery.
East TN
A battle that lasted less than 6 hours, and killed 7,000 Confederate soldiers.
The Battle of Franklin
The clause that made it so white southerns did not have to complete a literacy test to vote.
Grandfather Clause
The Ku Klux Klan is lead by a man called the?
Grand Wizard
Tennessee's first commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau.
Clinton B. Fisk
It was centrally located between the Union and Confederate states.
The Union won this battle with the help of the Colored Infantry.
Battle of Nashville
After Lincoln was assassinated, this man became president.
Andrew Johnson
An event of violence that took place between the Memphis police force and the freed slaves stationed outside the city.
Memphis Riots
The first former confederate state to enfranchise black voters after the Civil War.
Tennessee
Forts were built along ________, in TN and used as strongholds.
Rivers
After this battle Tennessee held a vote to end slavery in the state.
Battle of Nashville