Reconstruction Jeopardy

Amendments

100

What does the 13th amendment say?

Abolished slavery 

200

What does the 15th Amendment say?

All MALES are allowed to vote regardless of race

300

What did the 14th Amendment say?

It said that all persons naturalized or born in the U.S. have equal civil and legal rights.

400

What does the 4th amendment say?

Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures

500

What is the 19th amendment?

All citizens can vote, regardless of gender (giving women the right to vote)

What am I?

100

- abolish slavery

- Southern states must create new governments that are loyal to the Union and respected federal authority

What are the two goals of President Johnson's Reconstruction plan?

200

I provided food and medical care, built schools and hospitals and gave 40 acres to poor white and African Americans

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?

300

I am a Northerner who moved south after the Civil War. 

carpetbagger

400

Required freedmen to work and forbid them from voting or serving on juries

Black Codes

500

I am the Democratic nominee for the 1876 Election

Samuel J. Tilden

Name that act!

100

I was the act that Johnson violated which led to his impeachment. 

Tenure of Office Act

200

The Military Reconstruction Act split the south into how many districts?

5

300

I allowed former Confederates to vote

Amnesty Act of 1872

400

I made it illegal to prevent another person from voting using bribery, force, and scare tactics

Enforcement Acts

500

I made Johnson's state governments illegal

Military Reconstruction Act

Who am I?

100

I am the 17th U.S. president.

Andrew Johnson

200

I won the Election of 1868 with the help of 1/2 a million African American votes

Ulysses S. Grant

300

I was arrested for sitting in a whites only train car. (must get first and last name)

Homer Plessy

400

I led the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives. I am also from Pennsylvania. 

Thaddeus Stevens

500

I was President Andrew Johnson's Secretary of War before he fired me. This violated the Tenure of Office Act which began Johnson's impeachment. 

Edwin Stanton

Random U.S. History

100

Which U.S. president never lived in the white house?

George Washington

200

Which U.S. president had the shortest term?

William Henry Harrison

300

Which court case overturns Plessy v. Ferguson's ruling "separate but equal" ?

Brown v. Board of Education

400

What is the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?

December 7th, 1941

500

What event is commonly known to have started WWI?

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria