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This 1865 amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This president proposed the lenient Ten Percent Plan and was assassinated in April 1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This federal agency gave freed people food, schools, and legal help after the war.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
In 1868 the House did this to Andrew Johnson.
What is impeachment?
In this system, freed people farmed land they didn’t own and gave the landowner part of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This 1870 amendment said the right to vote can’t be denied because of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Tennessean became president after Lincoln, pardoned ex-Confederates.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Lincoln’s plan let a state rejoin once 10% of its 1860 voters swore loyalty to the Union.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
This terrorist group, founded in Tennessee in 1866, used violence to stop Black political participation.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1868 amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S. and guaranteed “equal protection of the laws.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Civil War general won the presidency in 1868 and used the Enforcement Acts against the Klan.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This faction in Congress wanted to punish the South and protect freed people’s rights.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
These 1867 laws divided the South into five military districts.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
This escaped slave and abolitionist pushed Lincoln and Congress for Black voting rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
These 1870-71 laws, including the Ku Klux Klan Act, let the president use federal force against groups terrorizing Black voters.
What are the Enforcement Acts?