Government
This branch proposed Reconstruction plans like Lincoln’s 10% Plan and Johnson’s policies. Enforced laws in the South during Reconstruction.
What is the Executive Branch?
These laws were created by Southern states to limit the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War.
What were the Black Codes?
15th Amendment *
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African Americans who migrated west, mainly to Kansas, after Reconstruction to escape discrimination.
Who were the Exodusters?
This superhero, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939, is also known as the "Dark Knight."
Who is Batman?
This branch passed the Reconstruction Acts, Civil Rights laws, and amendments.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and violence were all used for this purpose.
How were African Americans denied voting rights after the Civil War?
They thought Lincoln’s 10% Plan was too forgiving to the South.
Why were Radical Republicans critical of Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
First appearing in Amazing Fantasy #15 in 1962, this teenage hero was bitten by a radioactive spider.
Who is Spider-Man?
This branch interpreted Reconstruction laws and sometimes limited protections for African Americans.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This report described violence and discrimination faced by freedmen in the South.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau Report of 1866?
Northerners who moved South after the Civil War for political or economic opportunities.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
This system replaced slavery but kept many African Americans in poverty and debt.
What was sharecropping?
This Marvel team includes characters like Cyclops, Storm, and Wolverine, and is led by Professor Charles Xavier.
Who are the X-Men?
This disputed election resulted in the Compromise of 1877, ending Reconstruction.
What was the presidential election of 1876?
He was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute and believed African Americans should focus on vocational education and self-help.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
This act divided the South into military districts and required states to ratify the 14th Amendment.
What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This plan allowed Southern states to rejoin the Union if 10% of voters pledged loyalty.
What was Lincoln’s 10% Plan?
Published by DC Comics, this Amazonian warrior princess wields a Lasso of Truth.
Who is Wonder Woman?
This event demonstrated the conflict between Congress and the President over Reconstruction.
What was the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
She was a journalist and activist who investigated and spoke out against lynching in the United States.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
Look at the Image on the Board,
How does the artist show the federal government’s role during Reconstruction? Give one example from the cartoon that supports your answer.
Varies
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This groundbreaking 1986 graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons deconstructed superheroes in a darker, more realistic way.
What is Watchmen?