Key facts and events
The pre-Civil war Supreme Court case that declared African Americans could not be citizens
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This President pushed for the passage of the 13th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
This clause in the 14th Amendment ensures equal protection of the laws
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
The 15th Amendment guaranteed this.
What is the the right to vote for all male citizens regardless of their ethnicity or prior slave status?
The successor of Abraham Lincoln
What is Andrew Johnson?
The first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate, representing Mississippi during Reconstruction
Who is Hiram Revels?
The 13th Amendment accomplished this
What is it abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
This Supreme Court case in 1896 interpreted the 14th Amendment to uphold racial segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The primary group to benefit from the 15th Amendment
African American men
The Radical Republicans were who and advocated for this
What is a faction of the Republican party that advocated for the full rights of African Americans and strict Reconstruction policies
This was a group of people who went around terrorizing African Americans
What is the KKK?
The day, month and year the 13th Amendment was ratified
What is December 6, 1865
The day, month and year was the 14th Amendment ratified
What is July 9, 1868?
The day, month and year was the 15th Amendment ratified
What is February 3, 1870?
This Bureau provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
What is Freedmen's Bureau
This man was the first black governor in the United States, serving as chief executive of Louisiana in 1872 and 1873
Who is Pickney Pinchback?
This distinguishes the 13th Amendment from the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
What is the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude nationwide, while the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in areas of the Confederacy?
The primary function of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was this
What is it granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former enslaved people?
The impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on the 15th Amendment was this
What is it outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting?
This is the year Reconstruction ended
What is 1877?
The approximate number of slaves who became freemen after the Civil War
What is Four million?
The Southern states tried to bypass the 13th Amendment by doing this.
Black Codes and convict leasing systems
This section of the 14th Amendment changed the structure of our federal system.
What is Section Five
The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871 were designed to do these things (name at least one)
What is end violence against black citizens for exercising their right to vote, run for public office and serve as jurors and empower the president to use military force to protect African Americans?
The Southern economy relied heavily on slave labor. After the Civil War, slave labor was mostly replaced by this
What is Sharecropping?