Reconstruction Era

He was the first black senator and was a minster of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

What percentage of freedmen could not read after the Civil War?

A form of economic slavery where freedmen would work on a plantation in exchange for a percent of the profit:

Who killed Abraham Lincoln?

Constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery

What was the Supreme Court case that declared that slaves are not citizens?

Lincoln pardoned high ranking officials & 10% of the population had to take an loyalty oath

What was the foundation of the African American community during Reconstruction?

Based on a famous minstrel show character, laws that established segregation in the United States:

A government organization that provided food, housing, education and land for freed slaves.

What was the most important part of the Reconstruction Act of 1867

goals were to destroy the Republican Party, to throw out the Reconstruction governments, prevent voting rights

She sued a railroad company in the Tennessee supreme court for segregation on the train car:

Who wrote the 10% plan?

This amendment gave voting rights to all men in the US:

How many African American men from the south were elected into Congress?

The plan that required 50% of the population to pledge loyalty to the union:

Which of the following was included in Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan?

Who was the president when Reconstruction began?

The "separate but equal" clause:

Removal of military forces in confederate states

Southern states did not allow African Americans to vote if any of their relatives had been a slave; Jim Crow Law

charging money in order to vote; used to prevent African-Americans from voting

All of the following are organizations that helped build public schools in the south EXCEPT:

Who was the president when Reconstruction ended?

Constitutional amendment that granted citizenship to African Americans

Radical Republicans tried to weaken Johnson's Reconstruction Plan