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Reconstruction
A review of the key terms and concepts associated with Reconstruction
Question | Answer |
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System of farming that replaced the plantation system in the South after the Civil War | Sharecropping |
Rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all citizens, especially equal treatment under the law. | Civil Rights |
Laws enforcing the segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War | Jim Crow Laws |
President who followed Abraham Lincoln after Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, narrowly missed being impeached by congress | Andrew Johnson |
Candidate who was declared the winner in the controversial 1876 election and named president | Rutherford Hayes |
Period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union | Reconstruction |
Laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans. | Black Codes |
Agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed African Americans | Freedman's Bureau |
Amendment that abolished slavery in the United States | Thirteenth Amendment |
Amendment that granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all citizens equal protection of the law | Fourteenth Amendment |
Amendment that declared that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color | Fifteenth Amendment |
Landmark Supreme Court decision that facilities for blacks could be separate from whites as long as they were considered equal | Plessy v. Ferguson |
Former Union general who was elected president in 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant |
Law passed in 1872 that forgave former Confederate loyalists for past offenses against the United States and allowed them to vote again | Amnesty Act |
Laws passed that made it illegal to prevent another person from voting through bribery or force | Enforcement Acts |
Secret society established in the South with the purpose of keeping African Americans out of political life by force | Ku Klux Klan |
First African American elected to the U.S. senate | Hiram Revels |
The social separation of people by race | Segregation |