SDC American History NTK Unit 1 part 1 quiz review

13th Amendment

A constitutional guarantee that abolished slavery.

14th Amendment

Guaranteed full citizenship status and rights to every person born in the United States.

15th Amendment

Guaranteed voting rights to all males regardless of race.

Black Codes

Laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities.

Lincoln's Plan

Required 10 percent of a state's voters to take an oath of loyalty to the Union and required states to accept emancipation of slaves.

Radical Reconstruction

Required 50 percent of a state's voters to take an oath of loyalty to the Union; divided the South into 5 military districts; required states to ratify the 14th Amendment.

Freedman's Bureau

Federal agency created to provide aid for emancipated slaves.

Emancipation

To free a person from slavery.

Compromise of 1877

An agreement by which Rutherford B. Hayes won the presidential election and in exchange agreed to remove all remaining federal troops from the South.

Methods of Disenfranchisement

Upheld literacy tests and poll taxes as voting requirements.Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan

A secret society formed in the South with the intention of promoting white supremacy and denying African Americans the exercise of their new rights.

Lost Cause Myth

An interpretation of the Civil War that attempts to preserve the honor of the South by casting the Confederate defeat in the best possible light.

Sharecropping

A system in which a farmer tends to a portion of a planter's land in return for a share of the crop.

New South

Economic shift from an exclusively agrarian society to one that embraced industrial development.

Jim Crow Laws

State laws passed throughout the South to enforce racial segregation of public facilities.

Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clause

Tools used to disenfranchise African American voters.

Legal Segregation

Upheld legal segregation of public facilities based on race.

Lynching

To put to death by mob action and without legal authority.

Ida B. Wells

Prominent journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade.