Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This president’s Reconstruction plan focused on quickly reuniting the nation, including offering leniency to Southern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These laws were enacted in the South to restrict African Americans’ freedom after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This 1862 act provided free land to settlers willing to develop it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and ceded large amounts of land to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This group in Congress wanted to punish the South and protect the rights of freedmen during Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This group used violence and terror to suppress African Americans' political participation during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This term refers to the government’s policy of moving Native Americans to specific areas to free up land for settlers.
What are reservations?
This 1882 law restricted immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This amendment prohibited denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Reconstruction plan required Southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment and allowed military occupation of the South.
What is the Radical Republican Plan?
These requirements were used to limit African Americans’ ability to vote, such as requiring voters to read or pay to vote.
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
This 1887 law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal land into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
This term refers to hostility or discrimination against immigrants, especially those seen as culturally different.
What is nativism?
These laws undermined the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction by enforcing segregation and restricting voting rights.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The withdrawal of federal troops from the South was a key condition of this "1877" agreement.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This type of clause allowed poor and illiterate whites to vote while excluding African Americans.
What is a grandfather clause?
This act funded the construction of a major transportation route connecting the East and West coasts.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This group of immigrants contributed significantly to building the Transcontinental Railroad but faced widespread discrimination.
Who are the Chinese immigrants?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This agency was established to assist freedmen with food, education, and legal aid during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This court case eventually overturns Plessy v. Ferguson during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This school symbolized the federal government’s efforts to assimilate Native American children into white culture.
What is the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
This purchase finalized the southern border of the United States and acquired land from Mexico.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?