Unit 8 Reconstruction Study Guide

Southern local laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans

• Black Codes

• 13th Amendment

• Ku Klux Klan

• Jim Crow Laws

An organization established by Congress to provide education and medical care for freed black people and poor whites in the South

• 14th Amendment

• Sharecropping

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Black Codes

White Supremacist group that used violence to oppress African Americans and other groups of people

• Sharecropping

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

System of agriculture in the South that kept African Americans and poor whites working for rich white landowners.

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Codes

• Slavery

• Sharecropping

Laws that enforced segregation until the 1960s

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• 13th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

The amendment that made slavery illegal in the U.S.

• Jim Crow Laws

• 13th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping

Plessy v. Ferguson

• The South was easily forgiven after the Civil War. Lincoln’s main goal was to reunite the South with the North.

• Although the intention was to free enslaved people, this did not end up freeing any slaves due to Lincoln’s lack of legitimacy in the Confederate states during the Civil War.

• “Separate but equal is constitutional.”

Lincoln's Plan

• The South was easily forgiven after the Civil War. Lincoln’s main goal was to reunite the South with the North.

• “Separate but equal is constitutional.”

• Backlash to the 15th amendment. Series of laws that impeded African Americans from voting.

Emancipation Proclamation

• The South was easily forgiven after the Civil War. Lincoln’s main goal was to reunite the South with the North.

• “Separate but equal is constitutional.”

• Although the intention was to free enslaved people, this did not end up freeing any slaves due to Lincoln’s lack of legitimacy in the Confederate states during the Civil War.

Literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clause

• “Separate but equal is constitutional.”

• Backlash to the 15th amendment. Series of laws that impeded African Americans from voting.

• Although the intention was to free enslaved people, this did not end up freeing any slaves due to Lincoln’s lack of legitimacy in the Confederate states during the Civil War.