Post-Reconstruction America Quiz

A strategy by Radical Republicans including land redistribution and civil rights measures.

The Southern backlash against Radical Reconstruction aimed at regaining control.

An agreement that ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.

Laws enforcing racial segregation and discrimination in the South post-Reconstruction.

1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the Jim Crow laws via 'separate but equal' doctrine.

A railway completed in 1869 that facilitated westward expansion and industrial growth.

A law that provided free land to settlers in the West to promote westward expansion.

An economic system that tied freedmen to the land through debt after the Civil War.

The period following the Civil War aimed at reintegrating seceded states into the Union.

Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.

Laws passed by Southern states to restrict the rights of newly freed ex-slaves.

Political faction that sought to impose harsher measures on the South during Reconstruction.

Constitutional amendment granting citizenship and equal protection under the law to all born in the U.S.

Federal agency created to assist freed slaves and poor whites after the Civil War.

Constitutional amendment granting voting rights regardless of race.

Southern Democrats who sought to regain control after Radical Reconstruction.

A secret organization that used violence to intimidate African Americans and oppose Reconstruction.