Second half Flashcards
Name given to the period after the Civil War in which the confederate states came back into the Union.
Reconstruction
Name the fee placed on voting during Reconstruction.
Poll Tax
Name the nickname segregation laws during Reconstruction.
Jim Crow Laws
Name the laws that limited on the rights and opportunities of African Americans.
Black codes
A vocabulary term which means to accuse of wrongdoing and bring to trial.
Impeach
What were test called to make sure people could read or write before they could vote.
Literacy test
Name the organization that helped former slaves by establishing schools, hospitals, fuel clothes and food.
The Freedmen’s Burea
Name the amendment during Reconstruction which provided equal rights for all U.S. citizens
Fourteenth Amendment
Who were the Congressmen who wanted the federal government to change southern society during the Reconstruction era
Radical Republicans
In 1877 a deal was made between Republicans and Democrats which allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president and officially end Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877