(AJohn) , Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote
laws that restricted freedmen's rights
Northerner who traveled south to make money off of the Reconstruction
A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
Ku Klux Klan
a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep african americans from obtaining their civil rights
a tax put on African American voters
Method used to deny African-Americans the vote in the South that tested a person's ability to read and write - they were done very unfairly so even though most African-Americans could read and write by the 1950's they still failed.
This exempted those whose ancestors had voted in 1860 from taking literacy test to vote
Plessey vs. Ferguson
Supreme Court case in which "separate but equal" was upheld.
a white Southerner who joined the Republican party during the Reconstruction period. they were also considered traitors to the Southern cause. Part of the radical government, they passed much needed reforms.
Please allow access to your computer’s microphone to use Voice Recording.
We can’t access your microphone!
Click the icon above to update your browser permissions above and try again
Reload the page to try again!
Press Cmd-0 to reset your zoom
Press Ctrl-0 to reset your zoom
It looks like your browser might be zoomed in or out. Your browser needs to be zoomed to a normal size to record audio.
Your microphone is muted
For help fixing this issue, see this FAQ.