Reconstruction Era 1
Who was the President when the Civil War started?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Who became the president after Lincoln's Assassination ?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What was the 13th amendment ?
What is the 13th amendment was a law that abolished slavery in the U.S. Unless you committed a crime
what is Segregation?
Forced separation of people.
What was the fugitive slave act?
a law requiring northern citizens to assist in the capture and return of escaped slaves.
What was the 14th amendment ?
what is a law that gave all people born in the us citizenship?
List at least 2 of the challenges that newly freed African Americans may have faced after being freed.
Racism
violence and intimidation
Lack of education
Not knowing where their families were
Not having money or savings to buy a house
Lack of job opportunity
Homer Plessy argued that the Separate Car act violated his rights according to what amendment
the 14th
What is Sharecropping
a system of farming that kept Black families in a cycle of debt to the plantation owner
John Brown is best know for...
Attempting to lead a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry.
What was the 15th amendment ?
Gave Black men the right to vote
True or False: Lincoln wanted to punish the South as much as possible.
False
Which Reconstruction Plan was the most harsh on Southern states?
The Radical Republican Plan
What is the NAACP
A Civil Rights organization that helps fight inequality.
Give one example of passive resistance by enslaved people
faking illness
working slowly
breaking tools
learning how to read and write in secret
What was the Klu Klux Klan (kkk) and what did they do?
What was a white supremacist organization, they hurt and killed African Americans to scare African Americans from voting or joining the government.
What are the THREE loopholes to the 15th Amendment
Literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause
Who's Reconstruction plan went easiest on the south
Andrew Johnsons
Explain how literacy tests and poll taxes were loopholes to the 15th amendment.
The 15th Amendment grants Black men the right to vote but literacy tests and poll taxes made it harder/impossible fore Black Americans to vote.
Explain 40 Acers and a Mule
A order that gave Black families their own land so they could become independent and make their own money. It was later taken away by Andrew Johnson.
What were the Black Codes?
Laws that were passed to restrict the rights and freedom of African Americans so they would be arrested and could be rented out to plantations as a new form of slavery
What were the Jim Crow Laws ?
Segregation laws that separated Black and white people.
What was the main goal of Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?
Quickly reunite the nation.
Explain the Grandfather Clause
A loophole to the 15th Amendment that exempted any man whose grandfather had the right to vote before 1865 from having to pay a poll tax or take a literacy test.
What was the tipping point that started the Civil War?
The south feared that Abraham Lincoln would abolish slavery.