Reconstruction in the South

Reconstruction in the South Vocabs

By:Andres

Grade:8B

Hiram Revels

He was born a free in North Carolina and went to collage in Illinois. He became the first African American Senate in 1850.

Ku Klux Klan

A secret society that opposed civil rights and particularly suffrage for the African Americans.

Enforcement Acts

It made federal crime to interfere with elections or to deny citizens equal protection under the law.

Compromise 1877

Democrats agreed to accept Haye’s victory

Poll tax

People have to pay to vote

Segregation

Separation of white and African Americans in public places.

Jim Crow Laws

Laws that enforced segregation.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Plessy was a landmark decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court that codified the constitutional doctrine for racial segregation laws.

Sharecropping

Sharing of the crop.