Reconstruction: Discrimination & Reactions

A government agency created during Reconstruction to help formerly enslaved people with food, jobs, and education

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Scalawags

The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law

• lynching

• Black Codes

• civil rights

• Jim Crow Laws

Laws passed in the south just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers; ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1866

• civil rights

• lynching

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites; named after a black character in minstrel shows, passed to discriminate against African Americans by forcing them into separate public accommodations. Replaced Black Codes.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• civil rights

Prominent Black American, born into slavery, who believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social segregation while secretly working against discriminatory laws. Created Tuskegee Institute

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Frederick Douglass

Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans and who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) along with Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Frederick Douglass

Fought against lynching and the many other injustices suffered by African Americans, publicizing the lynchings in newspaper articles and other writings.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Frederick Douglass

The illegal killing of people by gangs of violent vigilantes; occurred in all parts of the country and sometimes against accused white people, but mostly targeted African Americans in the South; meant to intimidate African Americans from asserting themselves in any way, including politically; were often conducted publicly and with the cooperation of law enforcement.

• civil rights

• Jim Crow Laws

• lynching

• Black Codes

Supreme Court case in 1896 that upheld Jim Crow segregation by approving "separate but equal" public facilities for African Americans. Made segregation legal in the United States.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• Miranda v. Arizona

A secret organization that uses terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in the United States

• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

• Jim Crow Laws

• civil rights

• Plessy v. Ferguson