25 questions
This Amendment abolished slavery
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
This Amendment “Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves." It also granted citizens equal protection under the law.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
Southern states passed laws after the Civil War that denied African Americans basic rights. What were these known as?
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Law and Order
Black Codes
This was the rebuilding of the southern states after the Civil War.
Reconstruction
14th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Black Codes
This term is used to describe a person who takes extreme political positions.
Moderate
Radical
Democrat
Republican
This means average.
Radical
Moderate
Democrat
Republican
People from the North who moved to the South after the Civil War.
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Presidents
Republicans
A white southerner who supported the Union and the Reconstruction. Often times, ex-Confederate soldiers. Some thought of them as traitors.
Scalawag
Carpetbagger
Republican
Radical
To charge a public official with doing something wrong.
Secede
Secession
Impeach
Arrest
When a landowner allows a person to rent a plot of their land and farm it in exchange for a share of the crop.
Scalawag
Black Codes
Sharecropping
13th Amendment
A bill passed in order to admit states back into the Union if 50% of white males in the state took oath.
The Bill of Rights
Wade Davis Bill
Black Codes
14th Amendment
An organization that helped former slaves and poor whites in the south after the Civil War.
Freedmen’s Bureau
Radical Republicans
Wade Davis Bill
Sharecropping
This was established so that citizens had to pay a tax in order to register to vote.
Jim Crow Laws
Wade Davis Bill
15th Amendment
Poll tax
Southern law passed that stated that only men whose grandfathers voted before 1865 could vote. Another way to have African Americans not vote.
Jim Crow Law
Grandfather Clause
15th Amendment
Black Codes
Tests given to citizens to tests their ability to read and write before being able to vote.
Literacy Tests
Black Codes
Sharecropping
Moderate
This is a hate group against African Americans. They used violence towards them.
Ku Klux Klan
Black Codes
Freedmen's Bureau
Jim Crow Laws
Enforcing the end of slavery and making it easy for the south to return to the Union was part of who's Reconstruction Plan?
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Both Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
Radical Republicans
In his Reconstruction plans, he wanted to pull the military out of the south and let the southern states have power NOT the federal government.
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
Who wanted military in the south to help protect the freedmen?
Andrew Johnson
Radical Republicans
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He got a speeding ticket
His Reconstruction plans were terrible and he broke the law by firing someone.
He had great Reconstruction plans that really helped the Freedmen however, the Radical Republicans disagreed with them and wanted him out.
He was too hard on the south and they didn't like that.
What was life like for African Americans after the Compromise of 1877?
Life got much better for them and they were able to find great jobs.
Whites and blacks were treated equally.
African Americans found it difficult to have rights and be treated equally.
Life was challenging but at least African Americans were treated equally to whites.
Who won the election of 1876?
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes would get to be President as long as he kept the military in the South to keep the Reconstruction going.
Samuel Tilden would get to be President as long as a Republican could be President next.
Rutherford B. Hayes would get to be President as long as he ended Reconstruction and took the military out of the South.
Samuel Tilden would get to be President as long as he ended Reconstruction and took the military out of the South.
What was "The Great Betrayal?"
Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election.
The military was removed from the South and the Freedmen no longer had protection or help.
The Republicans lost the election and had to end Reconstruction leaving many people in the North feeling betrayed.
The military was forced to stay in the South betraying what they were originally told. They didn't get to see their families for 5 years.