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The Constitution of 1866 was amended in Texas for what reason?
To keep control over the Freedmen
After the Civil War ended white settlers moved towards the west causing the migration of this community?
Native Americans
Who killed the majority of buffalo and Native Americans?
US ARMY/ TEXAS RANGERS/ Westward expansion/ Indian Removal act
Why was the KKK formed?
White southerners felt like their way of life was being threaten
What were some of the KKK tactics to instill fear into African Americans and their sympathizers.
Ride at night, yelling threats, burning black houses/schools/churches/business, burn wooden crosses.
What did the 15th amendment do
Banned states from denying African American males the right to vote
Why did Texas feel the pain after the Civil War had ended
The lost all their free labor
What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan
To keep race's apart.... whites in power
What holiday celebrates the moment most southern states acknowledge the freedom of blacks
Juneteenth
Who were excluded from citizen rights in the 14th amendment?
Women and Native Americans
Who was Andrew Johnson?
He was Abraham's Vice President and became president after Lincoln's death.
Name TWO things the Freedman's Bureau did to help the black community?
set up schools, jobs, and courts to settle disputes, hospitals, food and supplies, reunited families
Who was John Wilkes Booth
assassinated Abraham Lincoln and was a Confederate sympathizer.
What were enslaved people who had been freed by the war called?
freedman
What do you call a person that farms the land for his landlord to live on their property
Tenant Farmer
Name 3 methods southern states used to prevent African Americans from being treated equal.
The grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy tests, Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, segregation, black codes, KKK
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave black the right to vote
Why did sharecroppers (most of them) live in poverty?
They often owed landlords more than they made at the end of the year.
What part of the South's economy began recovery first during Reconstruction
Agriculture
What amendment declared who a citizen was?
14th Amendment
Define segregation
enforced separation of races
What became a point of conflict during Reconstruction by Andrew Johnson and his party?
 
Denying Blacks the ability to hold political office
 
Deny Blacks the ability to buy land
 
Approved marriage between races
 
Approved Blacks the ability to hold political office
Black Codes were made to do what?
Deny African American Rights
What was Abraham Lincoln's main goal during the beginning of Reconstruction
Unite the Country
What did the 14th Amendment say?
All people born or naturalized in the US are citizens
What amendment banned the use of slavery and forced labor?
13th
What is a poll tax?
A personal tax to be paid before voting
Which of these is NOT a reason why the Freemen's Bureau was created?
 
Tenant Farming
 
Education
 
Unite Families
 
Food and Supplies
What is a sharecropper
Black Americans who farmed land in return for a portion of the value of the crop.