Rebuilding the South
The Fight over Construction
The Fight over Construction
Reconstruction in the South
Reconstruction in the South
100
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.
What is reconstruction?
100
Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
100
Process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official.
What is impeachment?
100
The name given to northern-born Republicans who had moved to the South after the war.
What are carpetbaggers?
100
This case allowed segregation if "separate-but-equal" facilities were provided.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
Created by Lincoln, it offered pardon for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
200
They wanted the federal government to force change in the South.
What are Radical Republicans?
200
True or False: In the election of 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidency with the help of African American votes.
What is true?
200
Name given to white southern Republicans?
What are scalawags?
200
Laws that enforced segregation.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
300
This made slavery illegal throughout the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
300
This Act provided African Americans the same legal rights as white Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
300
These laws divided the South into five districts.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
300
Hiram Revels was the first African American to hold this post in the government.
What is U.S. senator?
300
An agreement in which the Democrats accepted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
400
An agency that provided relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Granted citizenship to all people born in the United States (except Native Americans).
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
The slogan used by Grant during his campaign of the 1868 election.
What is "Let Us Have Peace?"
400
Secret Society that opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
This industry offered many southern workers an alternative to farming in the late 1800s: Cotton mills, steel mills, construction, or shipping?
What are cotton mills?
500
Lincoln's main vision for Reconstruction.
What is reuniting the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible?
500
Gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
The reason the Congressional Republicans wanted to pass the Fifteenth Amendment.
What is strengthen their support in Congress?
500
The severe economic downturn that began in 1873.
What is the Panic of 1873?
500
Describe the working life at southern mills in the late 1800s.
What is overworked, low wages, diseases, injury, and even death?
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