Amendments
What amendment abolished slavery?
The 13th!
Southern whites who helped freedmen.
Tax that had to be paid in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
Who killed Abe Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The Executive branch
What is the 13th amendment?
Abolishing/getting rid of slavery.
Define Carpetbagger
Northern whites who moved to the south to get involved in politics and business.
Reading/writing test that people had to take in order to be able to vote.
What is a literacy test?
Where did Abe Lincoln die?
Ford's Theater
What is the 10% plan?
Only 10% of southerners in each state had to pledge their oath or loyalty to the Union.
What is the 14th amendment?
Granting citizenship.
The group of people who were against Andrew Johnson and Abe Lincoln. They wanted to punish the south and help out freedmen.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
It stated that in order to vote, your grandfather had to have voted in the past.
This president was very unpopular & impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What is the 15th amendment?
Granting African Americans the right to vote.
Laws that segregated African Americans from whites.
Identify the amendment that enabled African Americans to vote.
The 15th Amendment.
This president served as a General in the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What amendment granted African Americans the right to vote?
What were Black Codes?
Codes used to severly and unfairly restrict the rights of African Americans.
This president was killed at 10:15 PM?