Reconstruction

To deprive someone the right to vote. Example: African American voters during Reconstruction.

• Disenfranchise

• Grandfather Clause

• Literacy test

• Martial law

If your grandfather could vote then you can vote. Used during Reconstruction to disenfranchise black voters.

• Disenfranchise

• Grandfather Clause

• Literacy test

• Martial law

A language test given before a person could vote. Unfairly given to just black voters during Reconstruction.

• Disenfranchise

• Grandfather Clause

• Literacy test

• Martial law

To put a district or state under military authority. Done during Reconstruction in North Carolina due to extreme Klan violence.

• Disenfranchise

• Grandfather Clause

• Literacy test

• Martial law

A fee that must be paid to vote. Given to black voters.

• Poll tax

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

The period of history after the Civil War in which the government struggled to rebuild the south.

• Poll tax

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

A poor small farmer must rent a plot of land to farm, but remains in a cycle of debt. Kept the majority of southerners (black and white) in extreme poverty for nearly 100 years.

• Poll tax

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

A series of laws that tried to keep African Americans in "slavery without the chains".

• Poll tax

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

A racist cartoon figure that represented segregation laws passed in the south. Introduced the "____ ______ Era" that lasted from 1877 until 1965.

• Vagrancy

• Jim Crow

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

Wandering with no permanent place to live. Many newly freed slaves were accused of ______________ and sentenced to forced labor.

• Vagrancy

• Jim Crow

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes