Basics
This period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and bringing former Confederate states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
This president was assassinated just days after the Civil War ended.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These laws passed in Southern states restricted the freedoms of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This economic crisis began in 1873 and hurt the nation's economy.
What is the Panic of 1873?
What college did Ms. Ryan get her first college degree from?
Siena College (before it was a university)
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This actor and Confederate supporter assassinated Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This law divided the South into military districts supervised by the U.S. Army.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
This event shifted the nation's attention away from Reconstruction and toward economic problems.
What is the Panic of 1873?
What was the name of Ms. Ryan's fictional republic when we learned about the XYZ Affair?
Republic of Ryan
This amendment granted citizenship to people born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction required this percentage of voters in a Southern state to swear loyalty to the Union before rejoining.
What is 10 percent?
This holiday celebrates the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free.
What is Juneteenth?
This compromise helped settle the disputed presidential election of 1876.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Who is Ms. Ryan's favorite dictator to teach about?
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
This amendment prohibited denying someone the right to vote because of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Lincoln was shot while attending a play at this Washington, D.C. theater.
What is Ford's Theatre?
Many Radical Republicans wanted to protect the rights of this group during Reconstruction.
Who are formerly enslaved people (freedmen)?
As part of the Compromise of 1877, federal troops were removed from this region.
What is the South?
Salvi (Wrapping Paper), Albright (Mini Ducks), Matthews (Valentines Day)
These three constitutional amendments are often called the "Reconstruction Amendments."
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Many Radical Republicans believed Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan was too lenient toward who?
What are the Southern states (or former Confederate states)?
The purpose of the Military Reconstruction Act was to ensure Southern states protected the rights of African Americans before doing this.
What is rejoining the Union?
Many historians consider the Compromise of 1877 to mark the end of this period in American history.
What is Reconstruction?
What school did Ms. Ryan work at BEFORE Shaker Middle School
Shenendehowa High School