Reconstruction Period
These codes, enacted by Southern States after the Civil War, sought to restrict the freedoms of African Americans and maintain a system of racial hierarch?
What are Black Codes?
This 1863 document issued by President Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territories were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This term refers to the rights and privileges afforded to citizens, which were central to debates about Reconstruction and the reintegration of the South.
What are civil rights?
This president succeeded Abraham Lincoln after his assassination and was the first U.S. president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This prominent abolitionist and women’s rights activist pushed for the inclusion of women in the Reconstruction Amendments. (Hint: she has her own popular 1$ coin)
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This 1867 law divided the South into five military districts to enforce the Reconstruction Acts and protect Black voters and civil rights.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendmen?
Before the 14th Amendment, the U.S. Constitution considered this group of people as property, not citizens, despite being born on U.S. soil.
Who are enslaved African Americans?
Women’s suffrage activists were often opposed by this powerful group, which argued that African American men’s right to vote should take precedence over women’s suffrage.
What is the Republican Party?
This term refers to the system of racial segregation and disenfranchisement that followed the end of Reconstruction, particularly in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This important document, passed in 1865, defined the legal status of slavery and abolished it throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
DAILY DOUBLE: This 1876 presidential election, marked by widespread voter fraud and disputes, resulted in this president’s narrow victory, leading to the end of Reconstruction in the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Though excluded from the 15th Amendment, women’s rights activists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton continued to fight for women’s voting rights through the formation of this association.
What is the National Woman Suffrage Association?
This political faction, led by figures such as Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, pushed for the most aggressive and transformative Reconstruction policies, including military rule in the South.
Who are Radical Republican?
This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This Supreme Court Decision in 1857 declared that African Americans were NOT citizens, a ruling later overturned by the 14th amendmen.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This president, elected in 1868, oversaw the period of Radical Reconstruction and worked to enforce the 15th Amendment, granting voting rights to Black men.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This women’s suffrage leader argued that Reconstruction amendments granting African American men should also include women.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
In the 1860s, Radical Republicans passed this act to confiscate land from Confederates and redistribute it to freedmen, although President Johnson’s policies prevented its full implementation.
What is the Freedman’s Bureau Act?
This 1862 law granted 160 acres of public land to settlers who would cultivate the land for five years, which had a significant impact on the West during Reconstruction
What is the Homestead Act?
This law, passed in 1866, aimed to provide citizenship and equal protection to African Americans, though it was initially vetoed by President Johnson.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This 1876 presidential election was one of the most disputed in U.S. history, leading to a compromise that ended Reconstruction and resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
What is the 1876 election (or Compromise of 1877)?
For 250 points Ida B. Wells was best known for speaking out against what type of racial discrimination? For an additional 250, define the term.
Lynching - The illegal killing of a person, usually by a mob, without a fair trial or due process.