Amendments
Describe the 15th amendment.
This word means 'to separate'. During the reconstruction era in the United States African American and White people were ______________.
Segregate.
This person assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth.
What did President Lincoln want for Reconstruction?
To unify the nation together to ensure peace.
Describe the effects of Jim Crow laws.
Describe the 13th amendment.
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the US.
This word means to treat one group of people as less than others. For example, some people ________ against African Americans.
Discriminate
This person became president after Andrew Johnson.
Ulysses S. Grant
What did the Radical Republicans want for Reconstruction.
To punish the South for the Civil War.
Describe the services provided by The Freedman Bureau.
Provided education, food, and jobs to help support newly freed African Americans who were once slaves.
Describe the 14th amendment.
This word means 'to forgive'. For example, President Lincoln wanted to give ___________to the South following the Civil War.
Amnesty
Lincoln's Vice President who became president following Lincoln's assassination.
Andrew Johnson.
Describe what happened when democratic white southerners regained control of state governments.
They started to reverse Reconstruction plans.
Describe the Ku Klux Klan's opinion of African Americans.
The Ku Klux Klan believed that African Americans were lesser and didn't think they deserved equal rights or freedom.
This constitutional court case stated that 'separate, but equal' was okay; meaning that segregation of African Americans and White people was legal.
Plessy V. Ferguson
This word means to charge a public official with a crime. For example, some people want to ___________ President Trump.
This person led the Radical Republicans and opposed Andrew Johnson.
Thaddeus Stevens.
What is one positive outcome of the Reconstruction era?
African Americans were given more rights.
Describe how farming changed in the South after the Civil War.
Many African Americans became sharecroppers.
This phrase refers to when a president refuses to sign off on a bill that Congress wants to pass.
Pocket Veto