Became the 1st African American in the U.S. senate.

• James Alcorn

• Blanche K. Bruce

• Hiram Revels

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Southerners who supported Reconstruction governments.

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

• redeemers

• sharecroppers

Northern-born Republicans who moved South after the war.

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

• redeemers

• sharecroppers

Secret society that opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans.

• Carpetbaggers

• Radical Republicans

• Redeemers

• Ku Klux Klan

Known as the first Great Depression, this was caused by the railroad companies bankruptcy.

• The Gold Crisis of 1872

• The Whiskey Ring Scandal

• The Compromise of 1877

• The Panic of 1873

Democrats that brought their party back to power in the South.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Redeemers

• Sharecropper

A special tax people had to pay before they could vote.

• voting tax

• poll tax

• poll clause

• grandfather clause

The forced separation of whites an African Americans in public places.

• segregation

• separation

• Jim Crow Laws

• unification

Laws that enforced segregation.

• Fredrick Douglass Laws

• Homer Plessy Laws

• Segregation Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

Supreme Court decision that allowed segregation if "separate but equal" facilities were provided.

• Brown v. The Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dred Scott v. Sanford