Reconstruction 1
He was assassinated in April of 1865, which changed the course of Reconstruction.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This amendment outlined and defined citizenship and also guaranteed due process of law
What is the 14th Amendment?
These were passed in the South immediately after the Civil War in order to keep freed slaves in servitude?
What are the Black Codes?
The belief that the United States's fate is to move west and expand?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Another term referring to the right to vote, which women were seeking?
What is suffrage?
The vice president who took over the presidency in 1865
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Most freed slaves joined this political party, post Civil War?
What was the Republican Party?
A "fee" that southern states imposed on people that limited poor people, including many African Americans, from voting?
What is a Poll Tax?
This "pathway" connected the east of the United States to the west?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This group controlled Congress and wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This government organization was established to aid former slaves, providing schooling, medical care and housing.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This legislation provided for cheap land to people willing to relocate to the west?
What is the Homestead Act?
What is the 19th Amendment?
The South was divided into this many military districts during radical Reconstruction?
What is FIVE?
The 15th Amendment declared the states could not prevent people from exercising this right?
What is voting?
The laws that were passed in the South, legally segregating people were called?
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
The name of the legislation passed to limit immigrants from China?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The 1st major women's rights convention in 1848 was held in this state?
What is New York?
This war hero was elected President via the election of 1868?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This agreement between the North and South officially ended the Reconstruction Period?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The court case that established the "separate but equal" lifestyle in the South?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Legislation passed in 1887 by Congress, aimed at "Americanizing" Native Americans of the midwest?
What is the Dawes Act?
What year did women gain the right to vote via a constitutional amendment?
What is 1920?