Reconstruction
Reconstruction lasted between:
a) 1965-1977
b) 1865-1877
c) 2011-2018
b) 1865-1877
What was the "harsh" plan that Congress chose to use with the rebuilding of the South?
a) President Lincoln's plan
b) Radical Republicans
c) President Johnson's plan
Radical Republicans
What were the 3 amendments that affected African American rights?
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee
What is segregation?
Separation of races
Reconstruction was the "___________" of the South----
a) rebuilding
b)educating
c) sharecropping
a) rebuilding
Former __________ needed help adjusting to their new freedom.
slaves
What did the 13th amendment do?
Ban slavery in the United States
a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Robert E. Lee
c) Frederick Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
What were the laws that required African Americans and whites to be separated?
Jim Crow Laws
Renting a piece of land but had to give a portion (a lot) of the crops grown to the landowner
Southern states needed to be brought back to the _________________.
United States
What did the 14th amendment do?
Allowed African American to become citizens
This leader wanted the South to forgive the North at the end of the Civil War and he was the Confederate general.
Robert E. Lee
What were 3 ways southern states kept African Americans from voting?
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clause
What did Freedman's Bureau help?
Who was president when Reconstruction officially began?
President Johnson
What did the 15th amendment do?
Gave African American men the right to vote
This leader was a powerful voice for African American rights
Frederick Douglas
Segregation was legal, "separate but equal"