Amendments
What rights did the 13th Amendment guarantee?
The Thirteenth Amendment guaranteed that no person in the U.S. could be held as a slave or forced to work, unless they had been convicted of a crime.
When did Lincoln and Congress create the Freedmen's Bureau?
March 1865
What does veto mean?
To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming law.
When was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
April 14, 1865
How could the state form a new state government?
10 percent of the voters in a state took the oath.
What rights did the 14th Amendment guarantee?
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed citizenship, protected civil rights, ensured fair treatment under the law, and required equal protection for all people within each state.
What did the Freedmen's Bureau provide? Who did they provide for or to?
Food, clothing, and medical care to poor Southerners freed from slavey.
What does Reconstruction mean?
The period after the civil war when the Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the union.
Who murdered Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What three states set up new governments under Lincoln's plan?
Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee
How did people take away the rights of the 15th Amendment?
People took away the rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment through discriminatory laws, unfair practices, intimidation, and violence, preventing African Americans from exercising their right to vote for many decades.
Who helped free African Americans to get them established?
Frederick Douglass
What does Amnesty mean?
Granted by the government to be freed from a crime.
Where was he before he tragically got shot?
He was at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
What did Lincoln's plan require?
It required voters in each Southern state to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.
What do all the amendments have in common?
They all abolished slavery, established birthright citizenship, and secured voting rights for enslaved people.
How did the Bureau help some people?
The Bureau helped some people get their own land to farm or find work for fair pay.
What does establish mean?
Establish means to fix, settle permanently, or to create something so that it becomes recognized as a binding law.
Who was the Vice President and became President when Abraham Lincoln died?
President Andrew Johnson
Why didn't Abraham punish the South after the war?
He didn't want to because he believed that punishment would accomplish little and would slow the nation's healing from the war.
What year did Congress ratify the 14th Amendment?
1868
What was Lincoln & Congress's main purpose in creating the Freedmen's Bureau?
The main purpose was to help African Americans adjust to life after slavery.
What does adjust mean?
To become more suited to new conditions.
How did African Americans and White Northerners feel after hearing about the news?
They grieved so much because, to African Americans, Lincoln helped bring an end to slavery. To White Northerners, Lincoln had restored the Union.
What was Lincoln's proposal known as?
The Ten Percent Plan