Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment was passed by Congress in this year.
1866
This President lead the Union through the Civil War and enacted Emancipation.
Abraham Lincoln
After Emancipation, freed peoples got to select a ________.
Name
Radical Reconstruction was lead by this party.
Republicans
The compromise of 1877 forced the federal government to do what with its troops in the south.
Remove them.
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment allows for all persons born or ___________ in the US to be considered as citizens.
Naturalized
This President was thrust into office unexpectantly and was the first to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
This political cartoonist was a supporter of the Union and criticized the policies of Presidential Reconstruction.
Thomas Nast
In the 1866 Congressional election, Johnson campaigned against this piece of legislature, which backfired tremendously.
The Fourteenth Amendment
Liberal Republicans believed in this form of government, which lead to their split from the Radical Republican Party.
Small Government
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment states that representatives will be divided amongst the states based on the whole number of persons within their borders, excluding this untaxed group.
Indigenous peoples
This former Union general was elected into office in 1868 where he oversaw Radical Reconstruction.
Ulysses S. Grant
Due to Johnson's approach to Reconstruction, Southern governments drafted these laws that aimed to keep freed peoples "as near to a state of bondage as possible".
This Radical leader spent years fighting what was called the "Reverse Underground Railroad" and set up an ironworks to hire freed peoples.
Thaddeus Stevens
The "Solid South" was a group of states that consistently did what with their vote?
Voted for the Democratic Party.
Section 3 allowed for no person who supported the act of __________ to hold office, unless approved by a 2/3rds Congress majority.
Insurrection/Rebellion
Confederacy
Johnson was the only Southern _________ to reject Confederacy and stick with the Union.
Senator
Johnson was a big believer in the rights of __________, which made his approach to the South more lenient.
The State.
The 15th Amendment made it so that no citizen of the united states could be denied the right to _________ based on their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
Vote
This Act, passed in 1875, was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1883.
The Civil Rights Act
Section 4 relates to all forms of _________, and what the United States shall do with it depending on how it was incurred.
Debt
This President was thrust into controversy and eventually was forced to sign the 1877 compromise, effectively ending Reconstruction.
Rutherford B. Hayes
One of the biggest changes enacted by Reconstruction government was the funding of ___________ in the southern states.
Public Education Systems
Radical Reconstruction was the first time when a presidential _______ was overridden through a 2/3rds majority.
Veto
All states aside from Louisiana, Florida, and this state voted for the Democratic party in the 1876 election.
South Carolina