Reconstruction Era Chapter Set

Tennessee

Which Southern state immediately ratified the Fourteenth Amendment?

Fifteenth Amendment

Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?

Freedmen's Bureau

Which of these helped African Americans make the transition from slavery to freedom?

segregated

Which type of society did Jim Crow laws enforce?

John Wilkes Booth

Who assassinated President Lincoln?

W.E.B. DuBois

Who was a writer and an African American civil rights leader?

Thaddeus Stevens

Who was the Leading Radical Republican?

Andrew Johnson

Who was the only Southern senator to support the Union during the Civil War?

Ulysses S. Grant

Who was the war hero and a two term president?

black codes

________ were intended to control freed African American men and women.

literacy tests

Besides poll taxes, which other tactic was used to prevent African Americans from voting?

Fourteenth Amendment

Anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen, according to the ______.

override

Congress was able to ____________________ Johnson's vetoes of civil rights legislation.

The KKK would mainly ride at night to the homes of African American voters, shouting threats, throwing rocks through their windows, and burning wooden crosses in their yards. When threats did not work, the Klan turned to violence and was responsible for lynching hundreds of blacks and their white allies.

Explain this image

The Plessy decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites was constitutional as long as they were "equal."

Explain this image

lynching

What word means to be hung and killed by a mob of people?

South Carolina

For a brief time during Reconstruction, African Americans had a majority of seats in the lower house of which state's legislature?

Civil Rights Act

In 1866 President Johnson vetoed both the Freedmen's Bureau bill and the __________________.

form new governments.

In 1867 states that had not ratified the Fourteenth Amendment were required to __________.

sharecropping

In what way did many African Americans workers find to be little better than slavery?

Ku Klux Klan

Many Reconstruction Era Democrats supported the actions of the _________.

Republican Party

Most newly freed African Americans supported the _______.

Southern states passed Jim Crow laws that separated blacks and whites in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, playgrounds, hospitals, and even cemeteries.

Name eight places where Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites.

carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called _____.

radical

What word was used in the 1860s that also means extreme?

impeach him

When President Andrew Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act, the House of Representatives voted to _______.

Ford's Theater

President Abraham Lincoln was shot at _____

the election of Hayes as president

Reconstruction effectively ended after ______.

Freedmen's Bank

Some African Americans borrowed money from the ________ to buy land.

scalawags

Southern whites who supported Republican policy throughout Reconstruction were sometimes called ______.

African Americans

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were intended to guarantee newly established rights for ___________________.

African American and Republican voters

The Ku Klux Klan set out to terrorize ________.

Tenure of Office

The ______________________________ Act prohibited the President from removing government officials without the Senate's approval.

Reconstrcution

The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called ____

poll taxes

To keep poor people and African Americans from voting, many Southern states enforced _______.

Thirteenth Amendment

What amendment made slavery illegal in the United States?

violence

What did some white Southerners use to try to overcome Republican rule?

amnesty

What is a group pardon called?

segregation

What is a legally enforced separation of races?

Poll taxes required voters to pay a fee each time they voted. Literacy tests required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution. To increase the number of eligible white voters, states passed grandfather clauses. If a voter's father or grandfather had been able to vote on January 1, 1867, the voter did not have to take a literacy test

What laws did southern states began passing that restricted the right to vote?

grandfather clause

What rule was used to prevent newly freed African Americans from voting, but allowed poor white men to vote?

Wade-Davis Bill

What was the name of the decree that required a majority of the white males in a state to swear loyalty to the Union?