Civil War
Presidential
Amendments/Laws
Reconstruction
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100
The North's victory in the Civil War meant
What is the Union was preserved
100
Who became president immediately after Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
Constitutional amendment which abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
Lincoln's original plan for Reconstruction in the South.
What is 10% Plan.
100
Who was elected president in 1868 during this phase of Reconstruction?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
200
If the Republicans won the 1860 election, Southern leaders threatened to
What is secede from the Union?
200
Name 3 services provided by the Freedman's Bureau.
What is education, food & medical, help finding work
200
Constitutional amendment which provided equal protection under the law for all citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
Government agency responsible for administering reconstruction policies in southern governments.
What is Freedman's Bureau
200
Law that forgave the South for its past offenses; allowed former Confederates to vote again.
What is Amnesty Act of 1872?
300
Forced military enrollment or draft
What is Conscription?
300
Explain 40 acres & a mule.
What is Plan to break up planatations and give each former slave 40 acres and a mule as payment for years of unpaid labor.
300
Constitutional amendment which gave African-American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Name the law President Johnson violated that led to his impeachment.
What is What is Tenure of Office Act.
300
Explain the Disputed Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877.
What is Close presidential vote; Republicans give election to Hayes; federal troops withdrawn from South and they control their own affairs again.
400
This battle, a northern victory, is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
400
What was the primary purpose of the Black Codes?
What is To prevent African-Americans from making too much social, political, and economic progress.
400
Laws in Southern states that made racial segregation legal.
What is Jim Crow/Black Codes?
400
Agricultural system meant to keep blacks in situation similar to slavery.
What is Sharecropping?
400
Law that declared freedmen to be full citizens with the same rights as whites; vetoed by Johnson; Congress overrode veto.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1866?
500
Place of Lee's official surrender of his southern forces to Gen. Grant and the Union Army.
What is Appomattox Court House.
500
What were President Johnson's requirements for former Confederate states to rejoin the Union?
What is Write a new state constitution; elect a new state government; repeal act of secession; cancel war debt; ratify 13th amendment.
500
This denied African Americans the right to vote, serve on jury
What is Black Codes?
500
Economic recession that contributed to the Federal government's abandonment of Reconstruction.
What is Panic of 1873
500
Divided the South into military districts; federal troops were sent; new state governments were formed; undid much of Johnson's work.
What is Military Reconstruction Act?
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