Reconstruction

Which of the following was NOT one of the Main concerns following the Civil War:

• Rebuilding the Southern Economy

• Reuniting the Union

• Reestablishing Trade Relations with Great Britain

• Extending Citizenship to African Americans

Match the following Amendments:

• Extending citizenship to all

• 15th Amendment

• Voting Rights for all men

• 14th Amendment

• End Slavery

• 13th Amendment

Believed that African Americans should “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” in order to earn their place in society and establish themselves as hardworking and honest citizens:

• Rutherford B Hayes

• Booker T Washington

• Ida B Wells

• WEB DuBois

All of the following EXCEPT _________ was used by the south to prevent African Americans from voting:

• Poll Taxes

• Civil Rights Acts

• Literacy Test

• Grandfather Clause

Southern governments enacted various measures aimed at disenfranchising or taking away the voting rights of African Americans. Not until the mid-twentieth century would these laws be overturned in both state and federal courts.

• Segregation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Compromise of 1877

Southern governments enacted various measures aimed at disenfranchising or taking away the voting rights of African Americans. Not until the mid-twentieth century would these laws be overturned in both state and federal courts.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Enforcement Acts

• Ku Klux Klan

This guaranteed African American citizens the right to ride trains and use public facilities such as hotels. Yet was left to the courts to interpret how the law would be applied:

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

White men who had been locked out of pre-Civil War politics by their wealthier neighbors and were welcomed in by the Republican Party.

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Codes

People from the north who were seen as opportunists by southern white people because they came to make their fortunes from the South’s misfortunes.

• Jim Crow

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Tenant Farmers

Formed in Tennessee in 1866, this was established to enforce violence against symbols of African American freedoms, especially education, religion and politics.

• Compromise of 1866

• Enforcement Acts

• Grandfather Clause

• Ku Klux Klan