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This man is the 16th president
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100

White supremacist hate group known for promoting white nationalism and racism often using violence, intimidation, and terrorism. 

What was the Ku Klux Klan

100
These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves
What are Black Codes
100

What does Amend mean

What is to change

100
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments 

What are the Reconstruction Acts 

200

This president introduced a plan for Reconstruction known as the 10% Plan

Who is Abraham Lincoln

200

A Confederate general who's father was a general in the American Revolution

Who was Robert E. Lee

200

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. [passed by Congress, January 1865; ratified December 1865]

What is the 13th Amendment

200

Amendment

What is a change to the Constitution

200

Federal agency to help former slaves become established in the United States after emancipation -  provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance to former slaves

What is Freedmen's Bureau

300

This president was one vote away from being impeached was against Radical Republicans

Who is Andrew Johnson

300

1st African-American Senator

Who is Hiram Revels

300

All persons born or naturalized (becoming a citizen) in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States...

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge (limit) the privileges...of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive (take away) any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law (follow a procedure like going to court); nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 

[passed by Congress June 1866; ratified July 1868]

What is the 14th Amendment

300

What does Abolish mean

What is to end or stop something from happening

300

Divided the formerly Confederate states into 5 military districts

What is the Military Reconstruction Act

400
This president agreed with Radical Republicans
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
400

He lead the Radical Republicans advocating for harsh penalties for the South and Civil Rights 

Who is Thaddeus Stevens

400

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged (limited) by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. (slavery) 

[passed by Congress February 1869; ratified March 1870]

What is the 15th Amendment

400

System where landowners give farmworkers land and seed in return for some of the crop

What is sharecropping

400

(1865-1877) was the turbulent era after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South, reintegrating Confederate states into the Union, and defining right for new freed African-Americans. 

What is Reconstruction

500

This man was president at the end of the Reconstruction Era

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes

500

This man assassinated President Abraham Lincoln

Who is John Wilkes Booth

500
This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union
What is the 10% Plan
500
These were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force radical changes in Southern life and politics
What are Radical Republicans
500
This is the number of southerners who had to take an oath of allegiance before their state became a member of the Union in the Wade-Davis Bill
What is a majority