Presidential Reconstruction
This referred to the occupation where Black men and women (as well as poor White men and women) worked on a farm but were paid by allowing to live there and work. This was similar to slavery in many ways.
What is sharecropping?
This was the term given to ex-slaves in the South during Reconstruction.
What is "Freedmen?"
This was the name given to the era of segregation and racial discrimination following the end of Reconstruction.
What is the "Jim Crow Era?"
This political party worked to support the rights of Black Americans in the South during Reconstruction.
This amendment stated that slavery was no longer legal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Give at least 2 of the main ways that the South tried to suppress the voting rights of Black Americans during Reconstruction.
What are:
- Poll Taxes
- Violence at the voting polls
- Grandfather Clause
- Literacy Test
This is how many military districts were drawn in the South as a result of the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
What is 5?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This was the President following Abraham Lincoln who handled Reconstruction poorly by defunding the Freedmen's Bureau and obstructing Congress's ability to protect Black Americans in the South. Eventually, he was impeached for breaking the law according to the Office of Tenure Act (1867).
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment stated that you could not discriminate against people's voting rights based on their race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
What was President Abraham Lincoln's initial Reconstruction Plan called when referring to the amount of people who would need to take an oath to readmit the state into the Union.
What is the "Ten Percent Plan?"
This organization was founded to support education, jobs, and the ownership of property for Black Americans in the South during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This was the Democratic Candidate in the Election of 1876 who was involved in the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
This President was responsible for enforcing the Ku Klux Klan Act that largely destroyed the organization in the South.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment stated that all citizens, either born in the United States or naturalized, had "equal protection" under the law and were required to receive "due process."
What is the 14th Amendment?
Name given to Black Americans who moved from the South to the West to escape the violence they faced.
What are the Exodusters?
This was a term used to refer to a white southerner who supported the Republican Party in the South.
What is a "Scalawag?"
What are the three states where the electoral votes were disputed in the Election of 1876.
What is Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina?
This President won the Election of 1876. With this win, the Republicans won the presidency; however, the "Corrupt Bargain" led to the Compromise of 1877 which removed federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This law was passed to try and destroy the terrorist organizations that were using racial violence in the South during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan Act?