Reconstruction & The Jim Crow Era

Question 1

What does the 13th Amendment do?

Answer 1

Outlaws slavery

Question 2

What does the 14th Amendment do?

Answer 2

• Defines Citizenship to include all people.

- Declares that laws have to apply to everyone equally.

Question 3

What does the 15th Amendment do?

Answer 3

• Makes it illegal to prevent citizens from voting based on race, color, or for being a former slave.
• African American men can vote.

Question 4

When is Reconstruction?

Answer 4

1865-1877

Question 5

What is Reconstruction?

Answer 5

The period of recovery & reintegration of the South.

Question 6

What is a Carpetbagger?

Answer 6

Derogatory term for a Northerner who was seen as intruding on the South during Reconstruction.

Question 7

What is a Scalawag?

Answer 7

• Southern Whites who collaborate with Reconstruction governments.
• Southerners who did not actively oppose Reconstruction.

Question 8

Who is the President after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 8

Andrew Johnson

Question 9

These were laws passed in the South during Presidential Reconstruction designed to limit the freedoms of formerly enslaved people.

Answer 9

Black Codes

Question 10

Who was the first African American Senator?

Answer 10

Hiram Revels

Question 11

This political agreement made Rutherford B. Hayes President & ended Reconstruction.

Answer 11

The Compromise of 1877

Question 12

Poll Taxes & Literacy Tests were designed to limit people’s right to ________.

Answer 12

Vote

Question 13

This era spans from 1877 to the 1960’s & describes a system of white supremacy.

Answer 13

The Jim Crow Era

Question 14

• This was a loophole for white people around the Jim Crow laws that prevented people from voting.
• This is the way that poor illiterate white people could still vote.

Answer 14

The “Grandfather Law”

Question 15

What is de jure segregation & where was it practiced?

Answer 15

The South

Segregation by law.

Question 16

What is de facto segregation & where was it practiced?

Answer 16

• The North

- Segregation by custom

Question 17

This is the practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services based on color or race.

Answer 17

Segregation

Question 18

Sharecropping was a system where people would trade their _______ for crops.

Answer 18

Labor

Question 19

Sharecroppers often could not stop working for landowners because__________.

Answer 19

They were in debt.

Question 20

What was the biggest problem for African Americans in the South during this period?

Answer 20

Malnutrition / disease / starvation

Question 21

What was the goal of the KKK & and other terror organizations?

Answer 21

To enforce white supremacy through violence & intimidation.

Question 22

What kind of people start the KKK?

Answer 22

Confederate veterans

-They were often led by Confederate officers.

Question 23

What kind of people did the KKK target?

Answer 23

Political Leaders, Heads of families, church & community group leaders.

Question 24

Immigrants from Europe stop coming to work in Northern factories because of this war:

Answer 24

WWI

Question 25

Where do most people settle (move to) during The Great Migration?

Answer 25

Major Northern Cities: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit & others.

Question 26

What kind of work did black Americans find there?

Answer 26

Men-Factories, Slaughterhouses, Foundries- Hard Labor

Women- Low wage domestic jobs (nannies, cooks, housekeepers)