People/Organizations
Who was the Vice President of Abraham Lincoln and was inaugurated after his assassination?
Andrew Johnson
Reuniting the nation and rebuilding the South
What was Reconstruction?
This term refers to the separation of people of different races.
Segregation
Guarantees equal protection and due process under the law
What is the 14th Amendment?
People who now can hold office during Reconstruction
Who were African Americans?
Established to aid former enslaved African Americans
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
These amendments were put in place to protect African American rights
What was the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.
Discrimination
banned slavery in the US and all of its territories
What is the 13th Amendment?
What was the year that Reconstruction began?
1865
Urged Southerners to reconcile with the North after he was the general of the Confederate Army. Was the president of Washington and Lee University.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Who created the 10% plan?
What is the system where a farmer works the land for an owner in exchange for a share of the crop, often leading to a cycle of debt.
Sharecropping
Guaranteed citizenship
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the 14th Amendment?
What year did Reconstruction end?
1877
Who is the group that saw them as defenders of the "southern way of life" and upholders of "our glorious southern heritage?”
Ku Klux Klan
Radical Republicans in Congress were _________ on the Southern Confederates States when they reentered the Union.
Strict
What laws were enacted by state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African Americans.
Jim Crow Laws
Gave African American males the right to vote
What was the 15th Amendment?
Who was a famous Abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe
One of these leaders believed African Americans should learn trades and earn economic independence, while the other wanted college education and immediate civil rights.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
The main goal that both President Lincoln and President Johnson had in their Reconstruction plans was?
To allow the Southern states to reenter the nation as quickly as possible
What three things did Southern States do before the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to deliberately deny the vote to nonwhites?
Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, and Grandfather Clause
Also know as the Reconstruction Amendments
What were the 13th,14th,and 15th Amendments?
Abraham Lincoln gave this speech in 1863 sending a message to foreign nations, and the Southern States that slavery will be abolished in the Confederacy.
Emancipation Proclamation