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This person's plan was the nicest to the Confederates

Who was Andrew Johnson

100

This amendment outlawed slavery?

What is the 13th amendment?

100

This is who fought the Northern states during the Civil War.

What are the Southern states?

100

Define freedmen

What is men and women who had once been slaves

100

When a president refuses to sign a bill, and it dies without becoming law.

what is pocket veto?

200

Lincoln offered this to most Southerners who swore loyalty to the Union, except for Confederate leaders.

What is amnesty? 

200

This amendment gave black men voting rights.

What is the 15th Amendment?

200

This is the job most freedmen took on their former plantations after the Civil War

What is sharecropping?

200

define Reconstruction

What is the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

200

He became the President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

who is Andrew Johnson

300

President Johnson's plan required Southern states to ratify this amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.

What is the Thirteenth Amendment?

300

This amendment gave black people citizenship.

What is the 14th Amendment

300

This secret society used violence and intimidation to maintain white supremacy after the Civil War.

what is the KKK?

300

Define Freedman's Bureau

What is the United States government agency that helped freedmen and poor southern whites by providing them food, shelter, education, clothing, medicine, etc.

300

Who assassinated President Lincoln

What is John Wilkes Booth

400

The Radical Republicans started this organization that helped enforce the 14th Amendment and give freed slaves an education.

What is the Freedman's Bureau?

400

These tests were designed to disenfranchise African Americans by assessing reading and writing skills as a requirement for voting.

What are literacy tests?
400

This was the name of the new country the south created after they seceded

What was the Confederate States of America/ Confederacy?

400

Define Black Codes

What is Southern laws to limit the right of freedmen. Stopped blacks from gaining political, social, and economic power

400

This system trapped freedmen in a cycle of debt by paying them to farm land but taking most of their crops.

what is sharecropping? 

500

What was the name of Lincoln's reconstruction plan and why did it have that name?

what is the 10 percent plan.

It's called the 10 percent plan because this plan said when 10 percent of the voters in a state had taken the oath, the state could form a new state government. 

500

This Supreme Court Case determined that separate is equal.

What is Plessey v Ferguson

500

The document that was issued by President Lincoln that stated all slaves in the rebelling states were to be set free was known as the..

What is Emancipation Proclamation

500

Supreme Court case that set the precedent (tradition) that “separate” facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were “equal.”

What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

500

The admission of this state as a slave state in 1819 threatened to upset the balance between free and slave states in the Senate.

What is Missouri? 

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