| A | B |
|---|
| Reconstruction | Time period directly after the Civil War. |
| Jim Crow | Time period after Reconstruction when there was blatant discrimination in the U.S. |
| Literacy Test | Voters had to take these before voing. They had difficult and often impossible questions which made them impossible to pass. |
| Grandfather Clause | Limited voting right to those men whose grandfather voted before 1860 |
| Lynching | A tactic used by whites to put fear into blacks. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Legalized separate but equal |
| Poll Tax | Black voters were forced to pay these in an effort to stop them from voting. |
| Black Codes | Laws which limited the rights and freedoms of African Americans |
| Ida B. Wells | Fought for equality and anti-lynching laws |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Believed in immediate equality and that education was pointless without equality |
| Booker T. Washington | This person believed the way to equality was through vocational education. |
| Compromise of 1877 | This ended the era of Reconstruction and gave control of the south back to the southerners. |
| 13th Amendment | This abolished slavery in the U.S. |
| 14th Amendment | Gave equal rights to all men and women regardless of race |
| 15th Amendment | Gave voting rights to all men regardless of race. |
