Laws, Acts and Amendments
Free, Citizens, Vote.
Hint: Acronym
What is the acronym for the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
His plan was the most lenient to white Southerners, pardoning all of them and returning their land back to them.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The belief that the United States is MEANT to spread from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
The white supremacist group that was founded maintain racial hierarchy and as backlash to the Reconstruction amendments.
What is the KKK?
The president who took peace-keeping troops out of the South, signifying the end of Reconstruction.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
Legal actions that are much, much harder to accomplish and get approved than a law. They are also much more difficult to overturn.
What is a Constitutional Amendment?
Stated that slavery must be abolished with a Constitutional amendment.
What did all three of the Reconstruction plans have in common?
This increased even after the KKK was outlawed.
What is violence against African Americans?
The two types of almost slavery that were allowed due to the 13th amendment loophole.
What were convict leasing and sharecropping?
Where the former peace-keeping troops were sent to instead of staying in the South.
What is the West of the US?
"Except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted” Extra: This allowed new systems of (almost) forced labor to happen.
What is the 13th Amendment loophole?
The person who's plan was to have 10% of people in each Southern state take an oath to obey the Constitution.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The animal that was driven nearly to extinction that had a large significance to the Indigenous tribes in the West.
What is bison/buffalo?
The laws (or codes) passed in the South in order to limit the behavior of Black people and maintain the racial hierarchy in the South.
What were Black Codes?
The period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War.
What was Reconstruction?
The act/law that provided land to any adult citizen 160 acres of ''unclaimed'' land.
Bonus points if you know the year
What is the Homestead Act?
Bonus: 1862
The people who impeached Andrew Johnson because they were so mad about his plan being lenient towards the Confederates.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
People who had family who could vote before 1866 were exempt from property and poll taxes and literacy tests.
What was the Grandfather clause?
The act of restricting a person's or group of people's right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
The president who was the cause of the downfall of the 1st generation of the KKK.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The US government passed this law to change the way land was used by indigenous communities. This law created “reservations” in Oklahoma (later other territories & states as well). Also known as the reservations act.
Taken directly from Reconstruction slides.
What is the Indian Appropriations Act? (Of 1851)
The part of all Reconstruction Plans that went into action and it most notable.
What is abolishing slavery via Constitutional amendment?
(Two more amendments were passed granting Black men the right to vote and citizenship.)
The group that won the Battle of Little Bighorn but lost the war overall.
What is the Sioux?
Methods of disenfranchisement (4 methods).
This was backlash to the 15th amendment.
What were poll taxes, literacy tests, the Grandfather clause and violence?
After the end of Reconstruction, what amendments were barely enforced?
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?