Amendment banned slavery in the United States and its territories.
What is 13th Amendment?
100
President after Lincoln's death.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
Laws passed in rebelling states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What is black code?
100
The job many former slaves ended up taking after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
100
The name of the period following the Civil War that attempted to give meaning to the freedom that African Americans had achieved.
What is Reconstruction?
200
Amendment grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
What is 14th Amendment?
200
President during much of Reconstruction that attempted to help African Americans gain rights.
Who was Ulysses S Grant?
200
A small group of white southerners who wanted to restore white control over the lives of African Americans through terror and violence.
What was Klu Klux Klan?
200
Individuals from the north called who went south to start businesses and run for political offices as the Reconstruction began.
What is a carpetbaggers?
200
The first African American senator elected soon after the 15th Amendment was passed.
Who was Hiram Revels?
300
Rights the 15th Amendment grants to all citizens.
What is the right to vote?
300
As the leading spokesman for African Americans he called for voting rights for the newly freed slaves.
Who was Fredrick Douglass?
300
Rules put in place to limit the rights of African Americans after the 14th Amendment was passed? (hint… this create what was called a “separate but equal society”)
What was Jim Crow Laws?
300
This means separated based on race.
What is segregation?
300
Physical rebuilding was a problem for the South during the Reconstruction because...
What is the majority of the fighting took place in the South during the Civil War?
400
The federal agency was established to help the newly freed slaves.
What is The Freedman's Bureau?
400
Was impeached violating the Office of Tenure Act.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
400
By the end of Reconstruction this agricultural model was being followed in the South.
What are cash crop growing by tenant farmers and sharecroppers?
400
This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union.
What is What is the 10% Plan?
400
The group in Congress that wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction.
What was The Radical Republicans?
500
The law that was enforced by federal troops and granted equal rights to African Americans.
What is The Civil Rights Act of 1866?
500
Lincoln left his 2nd term as president early because....
What is he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
500
This is the Radical Republican's response to the 10% Plan which required a majority of the citizens to take an oath of allegiance to join the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
500
The plan that William T Sherman devised for every ex-slave in South Caroline (eventually nixed by President Johnson).
What is 40 acres and a mule?
500
The agreement made by Congress in order to help end the Reconstruction by pulling troops out of the South and declaring Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 presidential election.