Presidents
Who won the 1868 and 1872 elections?
Ulysses Grant
Which United States president came up with the "10% Plan", a very lenient plan that would allow Southern states to rejoin the Union if 10% of their citizens pledged loyalty to America?
Abraham Lincoln
Which of the following would NOT be an example of black codes? F
Move North
What is the term given to white Southerners who left the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party, and gain political power?
Scalawag
What political party would an angry, former-Confederate be MOST likely to join?
Democrat
What scandal in the Grant Administration forced the Vice President Schuyler Colfax to resign?
Credit Mobilier
Which of the following offered assistance, such as medical aid and education to freed slaves?
Freedmen’s Bureau
What is the Reconstruction-era system in which freed persons are given land, seeds, and tools, and must share their crop with the landowners?
Sharecropping
What is the term given to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, some of whom tried to exploit the South's condition?
Carpetbagger
What is the title given to the economic collapse in America during Reconstruction?
Depression of 1873
Who won the Election of 1876, ending Reconstruction?
Rutherford Hayes
What is the name given to the Congressional plan to require 50% of former Confederates to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States in order to rejoin the Union?
Wade-Davis Bill
Which amendment to the United States Constitution gave freedom to the slaves, and outlawed forced work in this nation?
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What word best describes some of the people President Ulysses S. Grant hired to work for him?
Shady
How would you describe Reconstruction’s success?
Win
Who lost the Election of 1876, despite receiving more popular votes?
Sam Tilden
What law divided the South into five conquered districts, each of which would be governed by the U.S. military until a new government was established?
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Which amendment to the United States Constitution granted citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States?
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What group was formed by ex-Confederates to terrorize freed blacks in the South after the Civil War?
KKK
What is the era between 1865 and 1877 in which the United States tried to rebuild after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Who became president as a result of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
What is the name given to laws that severely restrict African Americans' lives?
Black Codes
Which amendment to the United States Constitution granted the right to vote to all American citizens?
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Who was the Secretary of War that President Andrew Johnson was told NOT to fire?
Edwin Stanton
Democrats to settle the election dispute between Hayes and Tilden?
Compromise of 1877