Reconstruction

The effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.

• Civil Rights Era

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction
• The Era of Good Feeling

The rights of all citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

• Civil rights
• Human rights
• Political rights
• Social justice

A collection of state and local laws that legalized racial segregation (separation).

• The Birth of a Nation Act

• The Black Codes

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Jim Crow laws

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 do?

• It granted citizenship and equal rights to all persons born in the U.S., regardless of race.
• It created the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• It established voting rights for women.
• It abolished slavery in the United States.

Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. 

• Civil Rights Act
• 15th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment

Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”

• 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution
• 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act
• 15th Amendment

Methods southern states used in order to deny black people the right to vote

• Secretly destroyed ballots

• Charged transportation to polling places

• Election day closures

• Literacy tests, poll taxes, and intimidation tactics.

What was the great migration?

• A relocation of Native Americans to reservations in the 1800s.
• A mass movement of African Americans from the South to the North and West for better opportunities.
• A shift of rural populations to urban areas in the 21st century.
• A movement of European immigrants to America in the 19th century.

Why was a Poll Tax for voting something that specifically targeted black people?

• Black people had excess money after the civil war

• Black people were the only ones required to pay the poll tax

• Black people did not have much money in the years after the war

• Black people had to pay an extra tax in comparison with everyone else