Reconstruction Checkpoint

Carpetbaggers

Notherners who moved to the South after the war and were viewed with suspicion by many Southerners.

What act was passed in 1866 to grant citizenship to all persons born in the United States.

Civil Rights Act

Plessy vs. Ferguson

The _ cartoon depicts Abraham Lincoln as a “railsplitter” who helped unite the country.

Railsplitter

The Compromise of 1877 effectively ended the

Reconstruction Era

What amendment granted voting rights to all male citizens, regardless of race?

15th Amendment

Scalawags

White Southerners who supported Reconstruction after the Civil War.

The “separate but equal” doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson led to the creation of

Jim Crow Laws

Significance of the 13th, 14th, and 15 Amendments during the Reconstruction Era.

Impact of the Compromise of 1877 on the Reconstruction Era and the lives of African Americans