Presidential Reconstruction
This president had a "strict" view for Reconstruction, denying pardons to offers who killed blacks during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The 15th Amendment did this.
What is voting rights/suffrage for all men?
A system of farming where a landowner allows a farmer to use their land in exchange for a portion of the crops that the farmer grows.
What is sharecropping?
A domestic terrorist organization with the goal of keeping African Americans as submissive laborers.
Who are the Ku-Klux-Klan?
Mr. Derr's cat's name.
Who is Judas?
This president had a "loose" plan for Reconstruction, pardoning Confederates who asked him personally and without restrictions on crafting new state constitutions.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery, but has this clause (loophole) included in it.
What is the exception for the punishment of a crime?
The system of sharecropping in the South ended up looking a lot like this past form of labor.
What is slavery?
This act banned the use of terror, force, or bribery to prevent people from voting.
What is the Enforcement Act of 1870?
Mr. Derr visited this country over the summer.
What is Japan?
This political group insisted that the main goal of Reconstruction should be a restructuring of society to guarantee black people true equality.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
The 14th Amendment did these two things.
What is granting citizenship and equal protection under the law?
During Reconstruction, the South began to move from an agricultural economy to this.
What is an industrial economy?
Name 3 successes of Reconstruction.
What is restoration of the union, industrialized Southern economy, passage of Civil Rights amendments, creation of Freedmen's Bureau, Southern system of mandatory education?
Mr. Derr's arm tattoo is based on this anime.
What is Berserk?
This was the first major relief agency (social service) in American history aimed at helping freedmen adjust to their new freedoms.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This Amendment was passed to protect African Americans from the discrimination of Black Codes passed in the South.
What is the 14th Amendment?
To help rebuild destroyed Southern cities, the government focused on helping to invest in this, such as roads, bridges, canals, railroads, and telegraph lines.
What is infrastructure?
Name 3 failures of Reconstruction.
What is Southern bitterness toward federal government, slow Southern industrialization, rise of domestic terrorist organizations, cycle of poverty for poor blacks and whites, racism doesn't go away?
Mr. Derr's favorite series of all time.
What is Star Wars?
These were some new found freedoms that black people were able to experience after the abolition of slavery.
What is the freedom of movement, to own land, to worship, to learn?
The Civil Rights Act of 1867 enforced Reconstruction with federal troops in the South, and also requiring states to ratify this amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The South followed the North's example my creating this mandatory system for all children.
What is public school?
This settlement allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president as long as the government withdrew its federal troops from the South and ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The name of the small squeaky toy on Mr. Derr's desk.
Who is Anpanman?