U.S. History: Reconstruction and the New South

These flashcards cover key concepts from the Reconstruction era in U.S. history, including important amendments, societal changes, and terms associated with the period.

The political challenges among Congress, the president, and state governments are just one part of the __ story.

Reconstruction

The end of slavery brought the right of legal __ for African Americans.

marriage

Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, later called the __.

Freedmen's Bureau

The __ Amendment abolished slavery.

13th

The __ Amendment made it clear that African Americans were citizens and deserved the same protections of the law.

14th

The __ Amendment said that no state could deny a citizen's suffrage based on the person's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

15th

Under a typical contract, the landowner would provide a place for the workers to live and farm in return for a share of their __ crops.

harvested

After the Civil War, many freedmen entered into labor contracts as __ with landowners.

sharecroppers

The system where an employer compels a person to pay off a debt with labor is called __.

debt peonage

The term "__" was a Southern insult for Northerners who moved to the South for economic and political gain.

Carpetbagger

Southern legislatures acted quickly to establish __ after the 13th Amendment to limit the rights of African Americans.

Black Codes

The __ Cause refers to the Confederacy and a way of life that was over for Southerners after the Civil War.

Lost

The Ku Klux Klan was established to intimidate African Americans and limit their __.

rights

By the end of Reconstruction, __ African Americans had served in Congress.

16

Sharecropping and tenant farming allowed newly freed African Americans to rent __ from plantation owners.

land