People
The first U.S. president to be assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Formal changes to a document
What is an amendment?
Amendment that made slavery illegal
What is the 13th amendment?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to free all of their ________.
What are slaves?
The year the Civil War began.
What is 1861?
A system in which both African Americans and poor whites would rent land for cash from the former plantation owner and keep all of the crop.
What is tennant farming
Where is the Capital of Massachusetts?
What is Boston
The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of the Emancipation Day for slaves
What is Juneteenth?
Amendment that allowed all MALE U.S. citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to declare ______ was illegal.
What is secession?
The year the Civil War ended.
What was 1865?
What did Ulysses S. Grant Die from?
What is throat cancer.
What is the Capital of New York?
What is Albany.
The group in the U.S. Congress who imposed more harsh conditions for the South during Reconstruction
Who are Radical Republicans?
The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Amendment that allowed all people born in the U.S. to be citizens
What is the 14th amendment?
The name of the terrorist, white supremacy organization, that sought to block the civil rights of newly free African Americans through violence and crime.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
The starting year of the Reconstruction Era
What is 1865?
Who coined the term "New South?"
Who was Henry Grady.
What is the Capital of California
What is Sacramento
The 17th President of the U.S. who agreed with Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction (no punishment for the South)
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
Laws passed by the Southern governments that limited the rights of African Americans
What are Black Codes?
Freedmen COULD NOT vote, be on a jury, have certain jobs and COULD be arrested if they did not have a job
What are Black Code Laws?
Organization set up by the federal government to help newly freed slaves gain the rights of U.S. citizens (education, voting, food, shelter, etc.)
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The ending year of the Reconstruction Era
What is 1877?
He was the first first African American to serve in the Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels.
What is the Capital of Texas?
What is Austin.
The 18th president of the U.S.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A person who works on a farm (usually in the south) but does not own it and has to pay rent. Economic slavery.
Who is a sharecropper?
Laws that forcefully separated people of different races
Segregation/Jim Crow Laws
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to take an oath of ______ to the U.S.
What is loyalty?
April 14, 1865
What is the day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
What was the name given to Southerners who switched to the Republican Party?
What is a scalawag.
What is the Capital of South Carolina?
What is Columbia.
His contested election for president lead to the end of reconstruction
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes
People who took advantage of Reconstruction to make a profit in the South
What are carpetbaggers?
This act, passed by the Radical Republicans in 1867, divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts.
What was the Reconstruction act of 1867.
During Reconstruction, the Southern states had to write new state ______.
What are constitutions?
June 19, 1865
What is the day slaves were freed in Texas (Juneteenth)?
Who founded the KKK
Who was Nathan Bedford Forrest
What is the Capital of Montana?
What is Helena.
To formally charge the President with misconduct in office.
What is to impeach
What is the capital of Washington state
What is Olympia