Amendments
This amendment granted citizenship to those born or naturalized in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?
This bill mandated that all persons born in the United States, excluding American Indians, were to be declared citizens of the United States
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This President was impeached because of conflict with Congress regarding civil rights
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This political deal resolved the heavily disputed 1876 presidential election
What is the Compromise of 1877?
True or False: The Civil Rights Act neutralized Southern Black Codes
This amendment granted voting rights regardless of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude
What is the 15th Amendment?
A series of laws placing ten former Confederate states under military occupation, and dividing them into five distinct zones
What is the Radical Reconstruction Acts?
This individual was the first African American Senator of the United States
Who is Hiram Revels?
This Republican candidate was granted presidency as a result of the Compromise of 1877
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
True or False: Southern states were granted permission to rejoin the Union without ratifying the 14th Amendment, and were only required to allow Black men to vote
What is False?
This amendment was passed immediately following the Civil War to officially abolish slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
Despite Black men being granted the right to vote, the South impose these two rules to prevent this
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
This person was a Union General who was elected as president in 1868, and utilized federal troops to fight the KKK
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Compromise of 1877 ended reconstruction because Rutherford B. Hayes did what regarding federal soldiers
What is withdrawing federal troops from the South?
True or False: The 15th Amendment was effective at preventing the South from creating inequality through voting rules?
What is False?