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100

Who was the Vice President of Abraham Lincoln and was inaugurated after his assassination?

Andrew Johnson

100

Reuniting the nation and rebuilding the South

What was Reconstruction?

100

Ways that African Americans were affected by Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws

What was discrimination and segregation?

100

Guarantees equal protection and due process under the law

What is the 14th Amendment?

100

People who now can hold office during Reconstruction

Who were African Americans?

200

Established to aid former enslaved African Americans

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

200

These amendments were put in place to protect African American rights

What was the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

200

What is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

Sharecropping

200

banned slavery in the US and all of its territories

What is the 13th Amendment?

200

What year did Reconstruction end?

1877

300

Urged Southerners to reconcile with the North after he was the general of the Confederate Army. Was the president of Washington and Lee University.

Who was Robert E. Lee?

300

Who created the 10% plan?

President Abraham Lincoln
300

Laws that made segregation legal AFTER Reconstruction

What were Jim Crow laws?

300

Guaranteed citizenship 

DAILY DOUBLE

What is the 14th Amendment?

300

What was the year that Reconstruction began?

1865

400

Who is the group that  saw them as defenders of the "southern way of life" and upholders of "our glorious southern heritage?”

Ku Klux Klan

400

Radical Republicans in Congress were _________ on the Southern Confederates States when they reentered the Union.

Strict

400

Laws that  made segregation legal DURING Reconstruction

What were Black Codes?

400

Gave African American males the right to vote

What was the 15th Amendment?

400

Who was a famous Abolitionist?

Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe

500

Abraham Lincoln gave this speech in 1863 sending a message to foreign nations, and the Southern States that slavery will be abolished in the Confederacy.

Emancipation Proclamation

500

What Act weakened the effect of the Black codes by requiring all states to uphold equal protection under the 14th Amendment, particularly by enabling Black men to vote?

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867?

500

What did Southern States do before the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to deliberately deny the vote to nonwhites?


Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes

500

Also know as the Reconstruction Amendments

What were the 13th,14th,and 15th Amendments?

500

Who are the three Presidents in US history to be put on trial for impeachment (but never were).  Double points for matching the years correctly.

Andrew Johnson in 1868.

Bill Clinton in 1998.

Donald Trump in 2019 and 2021.