Amendments
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865 in the aftermath of the Civil War, abolished slavery in the United States.
Explain Lincoln's 10% Plan
10% of the voting population from the 1860 election in a state would need to take an oath of allegiance to the Union and the emancipation of enslaved people.
13th Amendment
Rights for African Americans
Explain the Black Codes
Black Codes were laws passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War to restrict the rights of African Americans
Purpose:
To limit the economic, political, and social freedom of African Americans and ensure a cheap labor force
Why did Lincoln's assassination become detrimental to the success and the goals of post Civil War American - Reconstruction?
- Johnson took over Reconstruction
-Radical Reconstruction was put in place
-Anti-Black Rights
-VETO of Freedmen's Bureau
-etc.
Define : Scalawags
coined by Southern Democrats - to describe white Southerners who supported the Republican Party during the Reconstruction Era. This group included white Southern farmers and those who supported Black freedmen.
What is Mr. Enoksen's favorite football team?
New York Jets
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”
Explain Johnson's Plan
Basically return the Southern states to essentially the condition they were in before the American Civil War
Anti-Black Rights
13th Amendment
Explain Poll Taxes
many southern states passed poll taxes in an effort to keep African Americans from voting.
As a result, many African Americans (and other impoverished citizens) who could not afford to pay the poll tax were disenfranchised and deprived of their rights as citizens.
Identify Frederick Douglass
He became the most important leader of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement.
Define: Carpetbaggers
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
What is Mr. Enoksen's dog's name?
Luke
15th Amendment
prohibits the federal government and states from denying a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Did the Radical Republican's put the Southern states under military occupation?
Yes. In 5 Districts
Explain Grandfather Clauses
The grandfather clause started as a strategy to disenfranchise African Americans from voting.
*It was a clause that only allowed Americans that had ancestors that voted prior to 1870 or owed property to be allowed to vote. This was a law in seven Southern states.
What Union General is known for sending a massive army down to the Southern states and ripping the south up in total ware fair characteristics?
William Tecumseh Sherman
Define : Reconstruction Act of 1867
The bill divided the former Confederate, into five military districts. Each state was required to write a new constitution, which needed to be approved by a majority of voters—including African Americans—in that state.
What color Truck does Mr. Enoksen drive?
Red
Racism was still a potent force in both South and North, explain how either the 13th, 14th, or 15th Amendment(s) faced backlash from racism.
Black Codes
Sharecropping
Johnson's Vetoes
Jim Crow Laws
Poll Tax
What was the goals of the Freedmen's Bureau?
Help newly freed African Americans with basic needs of necessity such as:
-food/water
-shelter
-jobs
-combat racism
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation.
Who murdered President Lincoln at Ford's Theater?
John Wilkes Booth
Define: Civil Rights Act of 1866
declared that all person born in the Unites States were citizens with full rights under the Constitution.
Is Mr. Enoksen widely considered to be known as a one of the world's most achieved Archaeologist today? Often considered to be the greatest of all time.
YES
13th Amendment
What was the Civil Rights Movement during Reconstruction?
The period following the American Civil War, where the federal government actively worked to secure civil rights for newly freed slaves through legislation like the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, granting them citizenship, equal protection under the law, and the right to vote.
Explain Segregation Laws
The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating segregation of - schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs were constant reminders of the enforced racial order.
Would Mr. Enoksen and President Lincoln get along in a casual conversation? Like, "bros"?
YEA DUH
Explain the Compromise of 1877
marked the end of Reconstruction as a distinct period, but the struggle to deal with the racism would continue in the South
Did Mr. Enoksen have braces?
Yes
The Poll Tax was a direct result from which amendment? 14th or 15th?
15th Amendment
What violent group did the US government actively fight during Reconstruction? This group spread terror throughout the south by committing violent crimes towards newly freed African Americans?
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Under Johnson’s Reconstruction policies, what two acts/laws did he VETO?
1. Civil Rights Act
2. Freedmen's bureau
Who was President Lincoln's Vice President?
Andrew Johnson
Radical Reconstruction
Radical Republicans in Congress took firm hold of Reconstruction in the South.
What is Mr. Enoksen's favorite animal?
OWL