Amendments
Rights and responsibilites
Johnson's plan
Vocabulary
Mix It Up
100
The 13th Amendment ____________, or got rid of slavery.
What is abolished?
100
Voting is an example of a _______ of citizens.
What is right?
100
A name for rebuilding the country.
What is Reconstruction?
100
Means to set free
What is emancipate?
100
A major difference between the North and the South after the Civil War.
What is cities/towns?
200
This amendment gave citizenship to all African Americans.
What is the 14th amendment?
200
The right to a fair and speedy _______ cannot be denied to any United States citizen.
What is trial?
200
These were laws passed that prevented African Americans from voting, owning land, and having certain jobs.
What are black codes?
200
Traitor
What is scalawag?
200
Andrew Johnson became president after Abraham Lincoln because of this reason.
Lincoln was assassinated.
300
The 15th amendment guaranteed this right to all men.
What is the right to vote?
300
The __________ refers to the first 10 amendments of the Constitution and clearly outlines citizens' rights.
What is the Bill of Rights
300
This was an organization set up by Congress to help former slaves.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
300
People who came from the North with their belongings in a bag and made money from the South's misery
What are carpetbaggers?
300
The terms the South had to accept in order to be readmited to the country.
What is agreeing to pass the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
400
In order for an amendment to pass, there must be a ______ majority amonst the members of Congress.
What is 2/3?
400
The process that the government must follow when accusing a person of a crime.
What is due process?
400
In a way, this replaced slavery because people were acting as indentured servants. Many former slaves were forced to move back to the plantations where they once lived and take part in this to earn money.
What is sharecropping?
400
The seperation of blacks and whites
What is segregation?
400
The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau
What is to help former slaves with food, supplies, and education?
500
An amendment must be ratified, or approved by this amount of states.
What is 3/4?
500
This is one of the responsibilites of citizens.
What is paying taxes and/or jury duty?
500
The reason many members of Congress disagreed with Johnson's plan for Reconstruction.
What is because they believed the plan did not punish the South enough.
500
The term meaning to break away
What is secede?
500
The way the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments protected the rights of African Americans.
What is specifically stating that African Americans could not be denied any rights of citizens.
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