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100
When all slaves in the U.S. achieved freedom
What is the ratification of the 13th Amendment?
100
The name given to individuals from the North that were believed to be taking advantage of the situation in the south.
What is a Carpetbagger?
100
The amendment that gave males the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
100
The reason South Carolina experienced increased growth and prosperity around cities.
What is the impact of railroads expanding?
100
The main idea of the the political cartoon.
What is a political cartoon of the re-establishing the Union?
200
The main goal of the federal reconstruction policies.
What is the desire to reunite the north & south?
200
A southerner who supported the Radical Republicans approach to reconstruction.
What is a scalawag?
200
The change created by the 14th Amendment.
What is the right of anyone born in the U.S. to be granted U.S. citizenship?
200
The longest lasting impact of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is the establishment of public schools?
200
The individual located in the top center of the political cartoon.
Who is a carpetbagger?
300
The order of reconstruction plans from harshest to most lenient.
What is
1. Radical Republicans Plan
2. Johnson's Plan
3. Lincoln's 10% Plan
300
The two groups that competed against one another for land and resources.
Who are the freedmen and poor white farmers?
300
Allowed for poor, uneducated whites to vote.
What is the grandfather clause?
300
The event that ended with 7 people killed and resulted in increased racial tension and violence.
What was the Hamburg Massacre?
300
The main idea of the political cartoon
What is a political cartoon that shows violence keeping African Americans from voting.
400
Items implemented in the South despite the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment that resulted in continued discrimination of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
400
The action taken by the government that resulted in groups like the KKK using violence and intimidation against African Americans in much larger quantities.
What is the impact of:
removing federal troops from the South?
400
The reason for the trend in the graph.
What are the impacts of poll taxes and literacy tests?
400
The reason African Americans lost the political power and elected positions by the end of Reconstruction.
What is the impact of poll taxed and literacy test as requirements for voting?
400
The concept being shown in the cartoon
Would accept either:
15th Amendment (all men can vote)
Literacy Test (man would not be able to prove 5th grade education)
Grandfather Clause (used instead of literacy test - if grandfather had been allowed to vote in 1867 the individual could also - would make it so no freedmen could vote)
500
The action taken by Congress to prevent white southerners from minimizing the effects of the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments
What is dividing the south into 5 military districts?
500
The result of law enforcement officials sympathizing with groups like the KKK and Red Shirts.
Why do hate group crimes go unpunished?
500
The reason many African Americans were elected to office in SC during reconstruction.
What is the impact of white citizens boycotting elections?
500
The legal event that resulted in the African Americans losing political gains that they had made.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
The organization of the individual on the left (wearing the hat & has a bag over his solder)
Who is a Red Shirt?