Amendments & Acts
This amendment abolished slavery and forced labor
13 Amendment
This group of Republicans were known for their opposition to slavery, their efforts to ensure emancipation and civil rights for Blacks
Radical Republicans
The act of bringing formal charges against a public official
Impeachment
Who can currently vote in the US?
Citizens aged 18+
Where does the impeachment process originate? (Where articles of impeachment are adopted.)
US House of Representatives
This amendment guarantees rights and liberties to all people (aka citizenship), including formerly enslaved people
14th Amendment
This Republican took over for President Lincoln (a Democrat) after his assassination
Andrew Johnson
A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body
Veto
What was the point of poll taxes and the literacy tests?
To prevent African Americans from voting
Who votes guilty or not guilty at the end of an impeachment trial?
US Senators
This amendment prohibits the federal government and states from denying a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
15th Amendment
Who was a leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives?
Thaddeus Stevens
Segregation
Name one of the voting barriers that survivors of the Clotilda encountered after becoming citizens
Meaher telling people that they were Africans and not of the country so they couldn't vote OR a poll tax
Who presides over the impeachment trial held in the Senate?
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
How many military districts South were established in the South with the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
5
This Republican became the 19th president and removed the army from the South, officially ending Congressional Reconstruction
Rutherford B Hayes
State laws passed to discriminate and prevent African-Americans from living freely
Black Codes
While the amendment states "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," it did not apply to all citizens. Who did it actually apply to?
How many presidents have been put on trial for impeachment, but were never removed from office because they were acquitted after the trial?
3 (Johnson, Clinton, Trump)
This 1875 act gave all citizens, regardless of color, access to accommodations, theaters, public schools, churches, and cemeteries. It also forbid the barring of any person from jury service on account of race, and provided that all lawsuits brought under the new law would be tried in federal, not state, courts.
This leader of the Radical Republicans in the Senate was a prominent voice of the anti-slavery North
Charles Sumner
This political party, also known as the Peace Democrats, were a faction of the Democratic Party in the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates
Copperheads
Which amendment gave voting rights to women in 1920?
19th Amendment
According to the US Constitution, a federal official can be impeached under one of three categories. Name one.
Treason, Bribery or High Crimes and Misdemeanors