Key Figures
President whose death started reconstruction
Lincoln
The KKK used what to gain influence?
Violence, intimidation
Name a group of people the 13th amendment helped
Former Slaves
Assassin of Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
What were the two sides of the Civil War?
Union, Confederacy
President who took office after Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Black codes were passed by who
Southern State Governments
The 13th amendment did what?
Abolished slavery
Founder of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
How many days after the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse was Lincoln shot?
5
President who took office after Johnson
Ulysses Grant
Which president used federal power to prosecute KKK members
Grant
14th amendment did what?
birthright citizenship and equal protection under law
First Black American Senator
Hiram Revels
What did the Panic of 1873 do?
Shifted Civil Rights focus to financial situation of the country
President who took office after Grant
Rutherford B Hayes
Civil rights act
Prohibited racial discrimination in certain public areas (hotels, transportation)
15th amendment did what?
Prohibited denying voting rights due to race
famous abolitionist, author, and rights advocate who pushed for citizenship and black voting rights
Frederick Douglass
What state did Hiram Revels represent
Mississippi
Black American Congressman who represented SC
Robert Smalls
How did the end of the Reconstruction Era leave our nation?
With racial divide, impoverished groups, no clear answer to unifying the country
The Freedman's Bureau was intended to counter what?
Black Codes
Lincolns Secretary of War, Johnson was impeached for firing him
Edwin Stanton
Robert Smalls became a hero of the Civil War for what?
Commandeering a confederate ship past confederate checkpoints, surrendered the ship to Union forces, freeing himself and his crew in the process