APUSH Reconstruction

Racial laws passed by southern legislatures in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War that aimed to keep freedpeople in a condition as close to slavery as possible.

• black codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Ku Klux Klan

Federal agency created in 1865 to provide former slaves with economic and legal resources: played an active role in establishing schools indlucing HBCUs.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• martial law

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Bureau of Homeland Security

A system that emerged as the dominant mode of agricultural production in the South in the years after the Civil War. Under this system, farmers received tools and supplies from landowners in exchange for a portion of the eventual harvest.

• sharecropping

• tenant farming

• agricultural farming

• portion farming

1857 Supreme Court case centered on the status of a slave who had been living with his owner in a free territory - the man was suing for his freedom; the Court denied the claim that black men had any rights and blocked Congress from excluding slavery from any territory.

• Dred Scott v Sanford

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Bd of Ed

• Marbury v Madison

A Supreme Court case in 1896 in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as long as the separate facilities are equal.

• Dred Scott v Sanford

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Bd of Ed

• Marbury v Madison

the Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional; this case overturned the separate but equal case that legalized segregation in the south

• Dred Scott v Sanford

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Bd of Ed

• Marbury v Madison

The Supreme court case of 1803 that established the policy of judicial review.

• Dred Scott v Sanford

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Bd of Ed

• Marbury v Madison

Tests given to African Americans before they were allowed to register to vote that would prove they were able to read.

• Literacy Tests

• Voting tests

• Government Tests

• Poll tests

Which word means "The Right To Vote"

• Democracy

• Elections

• Suffrage

• Republicanism

Law that stated a person could vote only if one of their ancestors had voted in the election of 1860; this law effectively barred all African Americans from voting as it was based on a voting year before the 15th Amendment was passed

• Grandfather Clause

• Literacy test

• Poll tax

• White Primary