Reconstruction Key Terms

laws passed in the Southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

• Black Codes

• Segregation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Poll Tax

a law that enforced segregation in the Southern states.

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Poll Tax

• Segregation

a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote.

• Poll Tax

• Segregation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

the forced separation of people of different races in public places.

• Segregation

• Poll Tax

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

a law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Compromise of 1877

• Reconstruction

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

an agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876; Democrats agreed to accept the Republican Rutherford B Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the South.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Compromise of 1877

• Reconstruction

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

the period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the Southern states.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Compromise of 1877

• Reconstruction

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

US Supreme court case that that established the doctrine of “Separate but Equal"

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Compromise of 1877

• Reconstruction

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Impeachment

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

process by the legislature to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Impeachment

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction