CS 12 Post Civil War Vocabulary

What were Black codes?

• Laws that granted African Americans the right to vote

• Laws that established military rule over Confederate states

• Laws that regulated the lives of freedmen and restricted their rights

• Laws that abolished slavery

What did the Civil Rights Act grant?

• Full political equality to freedmen

• The right to vote for women

• Abolition of slavery

• Military rule over Confederate states

What did the Fourteenth Amendment achieve?

• Abolished slavery in all states of the Union

• Granted full US citizenship and equal protection of the law to former slaves

• Established military rule over Confederate states

• Required a poll tax for voting in all states

What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Act?

• To abolish slavery within the United States

• To establish military rule over Confederate states until new governments could be formed

• To grant women the right to vote and run for political office

• To enforce segregation in all southern states

What is sharecropping?

• A system where former slaves were given land for free

• A replacement for slavery where former slaves worked for a share of the crops

• A law that granted full political equality to all people withint the United States

• A tax required to vote in southern states

What was the Ku Klux Klan known for?

• Promoting civil rights for African Americans

• Using terrorism to deny civil rights to African Americans

• Establishing military rule over Confederate states

• Granting full political equality to freedmen

What were 'Jim Crow' laws?

• Laws that abolished slavery

• Laws that segregated blacks from whites

• Laws that granted full US citizenship to former slaves

• Laws that established military rule over Confederate states

What does segregation refer to?

• Abolition of slavery

• Separation of races

• Granting voting rights to women

• Establishing military rule

What was the significance of the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

• It abolished slavery

• It ruled that 'Jim Crow' laws were unconstitutional

• It established the 'separate but equal' standard

• It granted full political equality to freedmen

What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

• It abolished slavery

• It ruled that 'Jim Crow' laws were unconstitutional

• It legalized segregation laws

• It granted full political equality to freedmen