Presidents
Amendments
Reconstruction Under Congress
End of Reconstruction
Vocabulary
100
This president was assassinated on April 15, 1865.
Who is President Lincoln
100
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment
100
Their purpose was to help freed slaves after the war.
What is the Freedman's Bureau.
100
These laws enforced segregation.
What are the Jim Crow laws.
100
The murder of a political or government leader.
What is Assassination
200
This man became president after President Lincoln's assassination.
Who is President Andrew Johnson
200
This amendment declared former slaves to be citizens and provided equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment.
200
They built hospitals and schools to help freed slaves.
What is the Freedman's Bureau.
200
The separation of blacks and whites.
What is segregation.
200
The rebuilding and healing of the country after the war.
What is Reconstruction.
300
The name of the laws denying African American men the right to vote or act as jurors in a trial that were passed under President Johnson's administration.
What are the black codes
300
What amendment prevented African Americans from being denied the right to vote?
What is the 15th Amendment.
300
These Northerners moved south to start businesses?
Who are Carpetbaggers.
300
After slavery, many African Americans had no choice but to return to the plantation where they had worked as slaves, because they could not find jobs elsewhere.
What are sharecroppers.
300
The bringing of charges of wrongdoing against and elected official by the House of Representatives.
What is impeachment
400
They felt President Johnson's Reconstruction plan was too easy on the South.
Who is Congress
400
Jacquez, who is an African American and couldn't read or write, went to vote. He was required to pass a test prior in order to vote, and because he couldn't read or write, he failed the test. Which amendment was being denied?
What is the 15th Amendment.
400
This name was given to Southerners who supported Reconstruction?
Who are Scalawags.
400
This law passed saying African Americans could not sit with whites on trains or stay in certain hotels, or eat in certain restaurants or attend certain theaters, schools, or parks.
What is the Jim Crow law.
400
Renting land from landowners and paying their rent with a portion of their crops.
What is Sharecropping.
500
Many didn't trust President Johnson because he was a Southerner and a Democrat.
Who is Congress
500
This president tried to block the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments granting rights to African Americans?
Who is President Andrew Johnson.
500
This subversive group was formed to restore white control over the lives of African Americans by instilling fear?
Who are the Ku Klux Klan.
500
This clause was added to some state constitutions saying that men could only vote if their father or grandfather had voted before 1867.
What is the Grandfather Clause.
500
Laws that made African American's life much the same as it had been under slavery.
What are the Black Codes.
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