Amendments
Key People & Groups
Laws & Policies
Reconstruction Politics
Miscellaneous
100
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
This president took over after Lincoln’s assassination and clashed with Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
Lincoln's goal for the civil war
Reunification/Reunify the Union
100
These Northerners moved South during Reconstruction, often resented by Southerners.
Who are carpetbaggers?
100
A major success of Reconstruction was the passage of these three amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
200
This amendment guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This political group pushed for strict Reconstruction and civil rights for freedpeople.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
200
Similar to Black Codes, these laws were restrictive and unequal for African Americans in the South
Jim Crow laws
200
Who's plan was known as the 10% plan?
Lincoln
200
Identify one goal of Reconstruction.
Bring union back together, rebuild South, give civil and political rights to freedpeople
300
Made it so that you can not discriminate when trying to vote based off of race or skin color.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
This president ended Reconstruction after making a deal in the election of 1876.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
300
This court case made segregation legal
Plessy v. Ferguson
300
This amendment most likely led to the situation in the image below.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Identify and describe one way in which ex-Confederates opposed Reconstruction.
Sharecropping, black codes, KKK
400
Loopholes around the 15th amendment
Literacy test, Poll tax
400
This secret organization used violence and terror to stop Reconstruction and black voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
This 1877 agreement ended Reconstruction in exchange for Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
400
This plan, proposed during the Civil War, promised freedpeople land but went unfulfilled.
Radical Republicans/Congress' Reconstruction Plan
400
President after Andrew Johnson.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
These laws in the South tried to get around the new rights granted by the amendments.
What are the Black Codes?
500
This government agency provided schools, food, and legal help for freedpeople.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
500
This farming system replaced slavery but often trapped people in cycles of debt.
What is sharecropping?
500
This major difference separated Johnson's Reconstruction from Congressional Reconstruction.
Congressional Reconstruction gave more protections for African Americans, while Johnson'sReconstruction was more lenient
500
The number of years Mr. Ferraro has taught at IS75
8