Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This organization provided food, education, and aid to freedmen after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Many freedmen worked under this system, where they farmed land in exchange for part of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?
This president created the “10 Percent Plan” for Reconstruction.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This group used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from voting.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
These contracts often trapped freedmen in cycles of poverty.
What are labor contracts or debt peonage?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These two groups in Congress pushed for harsher Reconstruction policies against the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This group often worked to rebuild the South and supported Republican policies during Reconstruction.
Who are the carpetbaggers or scalawags?
Instead of paying wages, many Southern landowners kept freedmen and poor whites in cycles of debt through this credit system that allowed them to buy goods on future crops.
What is the crop-lien system?
Southern states used literacy tests and poll taxes to weaken the power of this amendment.
What is the 15th Amendment?
He was impeached by the House of Representatives but survived removal by one vote in the Senate.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These laws in Southern states restricted African Americans’ rights after the Civil War.
What are the Black Codes?
This crop dominated Southern agriculture and tied the South’s economy to world markets.
What is cotton?
These three amendments are sometimes called the “Reconstruction Amendments.”
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This African American man became the first to serve in the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction
Who is Hiram Revels?
This group in Congress wanted to punish Southern leaders, protect the rights of freedmen, and ensure African Americans had full citizenship and voting rights during Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Southern states passed these laws after the Civil War to control African Americans’ labor and limit their economic opportunities, often forcing them into unfair work contracts.
What are the Black Codes?