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This U.S. President was assassinated in 1865.
What is Abraham Lincoln?
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. U.S Grant in this U.S. State effectively ending the American Civil War.
What is Virginia?
This U.S. President was impeached (1868) on the grounds violating the Tenure of Office Act.
What is Andrew Johnson?
The Amendement to the the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
After the American Civil War, thousands of freedpeople traveled great distances at significant material and emotional costs, seeking lost and displaced family members.
What is True (see p. 325).
What is Andrew Johnson
The Hamburg Massacre (July 1876), a consequential event leading to the overthrow of Reconstruction in this U.S. State.
What is South Carolina? (see p. 344).
Following the American Civil War, this group founded grade schools, secondary schools, and institutions of higher education for African Americans.
The American Missionary Association? (see p. 329).
Immediately following the Civil War, White southerners passed ____________ that enforced the labor contracts that once again bound freed people, who had few other options, to the land.
What are Black Codes?
Southern teachers, missionaries, and philanthropists helped found hundreds of schools for Black children and adults.
This former Union Army General served as the 1st commissioner to the Freedman's Bureau, an organization to help transition newly emancipated African Americans.
What is Gen. Oliver O. Howard
The Ku Klux Klan was organized in 1865 in this U.S. State.
What is Tennessee? (see p. 344).
This US President vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866; an act that defined U.S. Citizenship for the first time and affirmed that all citizens were equally protected by the laws.
What is Andrew Johnson? (see p. 337)
This law (passed in 1870 and 1871) was designed to protect Blacks. Federal troops rather than state militias were authorized to put down the widespread lawlessness, and those who conspired to deprive Black people of their civil rights were to tried in federal rather than state or local courts.
What are the En(Force)ment Acts?
Conservative White Southerners who sought to restore white political power; termed their movement as the redemption movement.
Blanche K. Bruch and ___________ served both represented the state of Mississippi on the United States Senate (both were one of the first African Americans elected to federal office).
What is Hiram R. Revels? (see p. 341).
Louisiana, Florida, and _____________ represented the last three states under Republican Party rule.
What is South Carolina?
This U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that the 15th Amendment did not confer the right of suffrage on anyone, opening the door for local voter disenfranchisement (designed to target Black and Republican voters).
What is U.S. vs. Reese?
This 1867 law dissolved state governments in the former Confederacy (expect Tennessee) and divided the old Confederacy into five military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
According to W.E.B DuBois, Black Reconstruction clearly demonstrated African American competence and equality.
This prominent Black educator founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881. It adopted the vocational-industrial model.
What is Booker T. Washington?
The Colfax Massacre (Easter 1873) occured in this U.S. State.
What is Louisiana? (see p. 344).
The presidential election of ________ led to the overthrow of Reconstruction.
What is 1876?
General William Sherman (Union Army) issued this military field order that settled more than 40,000 former enslaved people in the costal areas that had been abandoned by Confederate plantation owners.
What is Special Field Order 15?
Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong and his mentee Booker T. Washington believed in training young Black people in skilled trades rather than teaching a classical liberal arts curriculum.
What is True (see pp. 335)?