This amendment declared slavery illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
These bills provided legislative authorization for the Freedman's Bureau.
What are Freedman's Bureau Bills?
100
The name given to slaves who became free men after the Confiscation Act of 1862.
What were Freedmen?
100
Abraham Lincoln was murdered here.
What is the Ford Theatre?
100
Who's plan wanted to build a strong Republican party in the South?
Abraham Lincoln
200
This amendment gave citizenship to African American freedmen.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This act contained the first definite provisions for emancipating slaves in the rebellious states.
What is the Confiscation Act of 1862?
200
What did Black Codes do?
Restricted freed blacks activity and ensured their availability as a labor force.
200
What year was he assassinated?
What is 1865?
200
Who's reconstruction plan said that no pardons would be available to high Confederate officials and people owning property worth more than $20,000?
Andrew Johnson
300
This Amendment gave all men the right to vote, despite their race or background as a slave.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
This is a U.S. federal law that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights act of 1866?
300
A U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
Abraham Lincoln was killed shortly after this person surrendered.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
300
Who's reconstruction plan wanted protective tariffs, pro-business national banking system, liberal land policies for settlers, and federal aid for railroad development?
The Radical Republicans
400
This amendment declared no slave-like work, UNLESS as punishment for crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
A series of restricted laws were enacted which were designated to restrict freed blacks' activity.
What are Black Codes?
400
This freedman was elected to become the first African American senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
400
This person was responsible for the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
400
Who's Reconstruction plan stated that a state needed to abolish slavery before being re-admitted into the Union?
Andrew Johnson
500
This amendment indicates that the government must go through due process before property removal or conviction.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
This kind of law enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of the Reconstruction period in 1877.
What is a Jim Crow Law?
500
What year was the Ku Klux Klan, led by Nathan Bedford Forrest, formed?
What is 1865? (December 24th)
500
The EXACT date of Lincoln's assasination. (month, day, year)
What is April 14th, 1865?
500
Who's plan pardoned Confederates who swore to support the Constitution and Union?