Amendments
This Reconstruction Amendment gave newly freed enslaved people due process rights and made them citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The South passed these laws to push back against the Reconstruction Amendments and limit their effects.
What are Black Codes?
This government facility provided educational opportunities for newly freed enslaved people.
What is The Freedmen's Bureau?
This was the first battle of the Civil War, where Confederate troops fired on Union soldiers.
What is Fort Sumter?
This Reconstruction Amendment abolished slavery throughout the entirety of the United States of America.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The South pushed back against the 15th Amendment by creating requirements intended to deny African Americans the right to vote. Name one requirement/barrier used.
What are poll taxes or literacy tests?
Because of his lenient (gentle, not strict) Reconstruction policies, which allowed the South to enforce Black Codes and bypass much of the civil rights work of Congress, this president was impeached by Congress in 1868.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This massive issue caused sectional conflict before the Civil War.
Hint: Think "Westward Expansion." What big question was asked of new states?
What is the expansion of slavery (in the West)?
This Reconstruction Amendment allowed African American men to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt because of this Black Code.
What is sharecropping?
The South is divided into military districts.
The 14th and 15th Amendments were ratified.
The president of the U.S. is impeached.
What era of U.S. history is this?
What is the Reconstruction Era?
Before the Civil War, both slaves and freedmen were denied what rights?
What are citizenship rights?
"African Americans could move out of the South and now had permanent freedom from slavery. However, many former slaves became sharecroppers to try to earn a living."
This is an unintended consequence of what Reconstruction Amendment?
What is the 13th Amendment?
These practices in the South sought to enforce segregation in public spaces and perpetuate (or keep going) "separate but equal" policies.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Thanks to the 15th Amendment, this man was able to become the first African American senator in U.S. history.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
This Civil War battle ended in a massive Union victory, where the Union took control of the Mississippi River and cut the Confederacy in half.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
Thanks to this Reconstruction Amendment, the ruling for the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sanford was reversed.
What is the 14th Amendment?
(Dred Scott v. Sanford ruling stated that African Americans weren't citizens)
Thanks to this political group, the South was divided into five military districts governed by Union generals to enforce federal law, manage voter registration, and guarantee civil rights for freed people.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, control of the U.S. government and, ultimately, Reconstruction, fell into the hands of which political group?
Hint: They controlled Congress.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This 1854 Congressional act increased sectionalism (the belief that you should have loyalty to your region over your country) by allowing slavery to expand into the territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?