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?
Ways that African Americans were affected by Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws
What was discrimination and 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
What is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropping
banned slavery in the US and all of its territories
What is the 13th Amendment?
What year did Reconstruction end?
1877
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?
Laws that made segregation legal AFTER Reconstruction
What were Jim Crow laws?
Guaranteed citizenship
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the 14th Amendment?
What was the year that Reconstruction began?
1865
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
Laws that made segregation legal DURING Reconstruction
What were Black Codes?
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
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
What Act weakened the effect of the Black codes by requiring all states to uphold equal protection under the 14th Amendment, particularly by enabling Black men to vote?
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
What did Southern States do before the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to deliberately deny the vote to nonwhites?
Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes
Also know as the Reconstruction Amendments
What were the 13th,14th,and 15th Amendments?
Who are the three Presidents in US history to be put on trial for impeachment (but never were). Double points for matching the years correctly.
Andrew Johnson in 1868.
Bill Clinton in 1998.
Donald Trump in 2019 and 2021.