Reconstruction

The “separate but equal” principle established by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) resulted in the

• Continuation of racial segregation

• Forced integration of schools in the South

• loss of citizenship for African Americans

• elimination of Jim Crow Laws.

______________ was the immediate cause of the Civil War

• The Dred Scott Decision

• The Firing on Fort Sumter

• Passage of the 13th Amendment

• Abraham Lincoln's Election

Laws that established literacy tests, poll taxes,

and grandfather clauses were passed by Southern states to

• raise money to rebuild the South after the

  Civil War

• improve the education of United States citizens

• limit the rights of former slaves

• support the Radical Republicans

What did the 13th amendment accomplish?

• It made slavery illegal

• Grants citizenship & equal protection

• Guarantees voting rights

What did the 14th amendment accomplish?

• Freedom of religion

• Grants citizenship and equal protection

• Made slavery illegal

• Guarantees voting rights

What did the 15th amendment accomplish?

• Grants citizenship & equal protection

• Right to bear arms

• Bans slavery

• Guarantees voting rights

These were used to take away the rights of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.

• Amendments

• White Codes

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights

The following group provided aid (help) to former slaves during Reconstruction.

• Black Codes

• Carpetbaggers

• 13th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

Agricultural & economic practice where a land owner allows a tenant farmer to work his land for a share of his crop

• sustenance farming

• sharecropping

• carpetbagger

• slavery