Constitutional Changes
This amendment to the Constitution officially abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
These restrictive laws were passed by Southern states immediately after the Civil War to control the labor and behavior of African Americans.
Black Codes
This term describes the forced separation of different racial groups in daily life.
Segregation
What movement focused on gaining voting rights for women?
Women’s suffrage movement
Farming system where workers paid with crops and continued the system of slavery during reconstruction
Sharecropping
Which amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
19th Amendment
What group in the south used violence and intimidation to oppose Reconstruction and protect white supremacy?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Who believed in immediate equality and helped found the NAACP?
W.E.B. Du Bois
The first women’s rights convention in the United States in 1848
Seneca Falls Convention
Laws that enforced segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Which amendment gave Black men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
This Vice President became the 17th President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and was president during most of Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
This practice involved the illegal murder of an individual by a mob or group, often used to terrorize Black communities.
Lynching
What did Booker T. Washington encourage African Americans to focus on?
Job skills and education
What were the 3 amendments passed during the Reconstruction time period, known as Reconstruction Amendments
13,14,and 15th
What Supreme Court case made segregation legal with “separate but equal”?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who were Scalawags?
White Republicans in the South who supported Reconstruction.
What test required people to prove reading/writing skills to vote?
Literacy test
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally helped protect who's voting rights?
African American Women
This era was known as the time after the Civil War in which Southern States re-entered the Union and the nation was rebuilt
Reconstruction
Who did the 15th Amendment NOT include?
Women's right to vote
What were vagrancy laws?
In 1892, __________ took a seat in a 'whites-only' car on a train in Louisiana, leading to a famous court case that ruled on "Separate but equal"
Homer Plessy
What group worked to improve African American rights and was established by W.E.B Dubois
NAACP
Besides Citizenship, what else was the 14th Amendment supposed to guarantee?
Equal protection