Amendments
What document are our amendments added to?
The Constitution
The Civil War
Southern leaders limited the rights of freedmen by passing ______________________.
Black codes
He was President at the start of Reconstruction.
Abraham Lincoln
This agreement ended the Reconstruction Era
Compromise of 1877
How many amendments were added during Reconstruction?
3
The South wanted to _______________ (withdraw from) from the country
Secede
How did people stop black people from voting after the 15th amendment was passed?
He was the Vice President when the President was assassinated, and became the second President during Reconstruction. He was a former slave owner.
Andrew Johnson
After the war, formerly enslaved people were left ___________ and _______________.
jobless, homeless
This amendment ended slavery in America.
The 13th amendment
This is the name of the group of Southern states that seceded during the Civil War
The Confederacy
_____________ was the forced separation of races, and it remained until the 1960s.
Segregation
Rutherford B. Hayes
Thanks to ___________________, literacy rose due to free schooling.
Radical Republicans
This amendment gave Black Americans the right to vote
The 15th Amendment
Who won the war?
The North
_______________ set up separate public facilities for African Americans that were not equal in quality.
Jim Crow Laws
This President was assassinated, so he was unable to complete his Reconstruction plan.
Abraham Lincoln
Formerly enslaved people were given this name after the Civil War
Freedmen
This amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the US and gave equal protection of the law to all people.
The 14th Amendment
Who lost the war?
The South/Confederacy
Angry former slave owners created this hateful organization which attacked and killed black political leaders.
Ku Klux Klan
He was elected President after Johnson's term.
Ulysses S. Grant
Lincoln wanted to __________________ the states as quickly as possible.
Reunify