April 12, 1861

This is a law created to abolish slavery in the U.S.

This was a 17-year-old African-American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman

Origin, Purpose, Content, Values and Limitations

This is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

10% plan

This is a law created, that gave black people the right to vote.

This group dedicated itself to an underground campaign of violence against Republican leaders and voters (both Black and white) in an effort to reverse the policies of Radical Reconstruction and restore white supremacy in the South.

This U.S. president began the era known as Presidential Reconstruction

These were the people who migrated South after the Civil War.

Fort Sumter

The 14th amendment gave African Americans citizenship, but it also did this.

These 'laws' mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains between white and black people.

This political party controlled the governments of nearly all the former Confederate states when they were readmitted to the Union.

These were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans.

April 9, 1865

Andrew Johnson was affected by this act during his presidency.

This agency to help blacks’ after the Civil War was vetoed by Andrew Johnson.

They made up the great majority of Republican voters in the Southern states during Reconstruction

These people believed black people were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as white people. They also believed that the Confederate leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War.

Ford’s Theater

This act gave people in Utah and New Mexico the power to decide whether they would allow slavery, and admitted California into the Union as a free state.

“Except as punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” This paved the way for the country’s burgeoning prison labor system and the world’s largest prison population at 2.3 million in 2020.

This was a period in American history following the American Civil War

This required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union.