People
Who assumed the Presidency after Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
Which political faction (party) demanded sweeping structural changes, military intervention and full rights for African Americans?
Radical Republicans
What term was used by Southern Democrats to describe Northerners who moved South during reconstruction?
Carpetbagger
What major educational achievement is credited to the Freedmen's Bureau?
Establishing over 4,000 schools and institutions like Howard University
Which constitutional amendment guarantees citizenship and equal legal protection to all persons born in the U.S.?
14th Amendment
Who were Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner?
Radical Republican Leaders in Congress
What political group favored rapid restoration of power to Southern elites without enforcing civil rights for former slaves?
Southern Democrats
What negative term was used by some Southerners to describe white Southerners who supported Republicans and Reconstruction?
Scalawag
What action did President Andrew Johnson take regarding the Freedmen's Bureau?
Vetoed its expansion and returned confiscated lands to former Confederates
What does the 15th Amendment prohibit?
Denying voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Which President proposed a lenient Reconstruction plan known as the Proclamation of Amnesty?
Abraham Lincoln
Whose plan for reconstrcution was most punishing on the South?
Radical Republicans
What agricultural system locked tenant farmers into cycles of debt by renting small plots in exchange for crops?
Sharecropping
"Carpetbaggers" rushed down to the South because they wanted to...
Make money rebuilding the South
Under the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, how many military districts were 10 former Confederate states divided into?
5
How come President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan never took effect?
He was assassinated
Radical Republicans worked very hard for what group of people during Reconstruction?
Black people, newly freed people, freedmen, etc.
What restrictive laws were passed by Southern states right after the Civil War to limit Black freedom and labor?
Black Codes
What year was the Freedmen's Bureau established?
1865
Is the picture of Mr. McEnroe on his door window real or AI?
Real (In his dreams)
Who became president after Andrew Johnson? (He's on the $50 bill)
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the main purpose of President Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty?
To offer a pardon to Southerners who took a loyalty oath and accepted the end of slavery. Reunite the nation.
What was the name of the government bureau that helped newly freed black Americans?
Freedmen's Bureau
The KKK was first mainly formed to intimidate black people and stop them from...
Voting
What political group favored rapid restoration of power to Southern elites without enforcing civil rights for former slaves?
Southern Democrats