People
Who was the Confederate general of the Army of Northern VA?
What is Robert E. Lee?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This agency helped freed slaves with food, education, and jobs
Freedmen’s Bureau
This white supremacist group used violence to oppose Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Reconstruction happened after this war.
What is the American Civil War?
This president succeeded Lincoln and was later impeached.
Andrew Johnson
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
These Southern laws restricted the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
Black Codes
This event marked the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Reconstruction began in this year when the Civil War ended.
What is 1865?
This former Union general became president in 1869
Ulysses S. Grant
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
These acts were passed by Congress to protect African American voting rights.
Enforcement Acts
Violence and intimidation were often used to stop African Americans from doing this.
What is voting?
Reconstruction lasted until this year.
What is 1877?
This formerly enslaved abolitionist and speaker advocated for civil rights.
Frederick Douglass
These three amendments together are called the Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the Thirteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and Fifteenth Amendment?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
Jim Crow Laws
Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party were called this nickname.
What are Scalawags?
The main goal of Reconstruction was to rebuild the South and give rights to this group.
Who are formerly enslaved people?
This famous abolitionist helped lead the Underground Railroad and advocated for freedom during and after the Civil War.
Harriet Tubman
This amendment also includes the Equal Protection Clause.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
These Reconstruction laws divided the South into five military districts.
Reconstruction Acts
Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction were called this.
What are Carpetbaggers?
During Reconstruction, federal troops were mainly stationed in this region.
What is the Southern United States?