Reconstruction Flashcard

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The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction was to

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prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.

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The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that

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ensured the civil rights of African Americans.

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As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to

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reverse Reconstruction era reforms.

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Reconstruction came to end when

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federal troops were removed from the South.

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The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in

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providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.

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This abolished slavery in the U.S. and states had to ratify this before they could rejoin the Union.

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13th Amendment

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This guaranteed the right to vote for all male citizens. You couldn't be denied to the right to vote based on race, color or previous servitude.

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15th Amendment

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These laws enforced segregation of blacks and whites in public places like schools, transportation, restaurants and restrooms.

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Jim Crow Laws

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This agreement ended Reconstruction with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes and the removal of federal troops from the South.

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Compromise of 1877

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This ruling decided that segregation was legal as long facilities were "separate but equal."

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Plessy v. Ferguson