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Who am I?
Federal Laws
Reconstruction Vocabulary
Problems during reconstruction
Plans for reconstruction
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Famous for both the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham lincoln
100
Which amendment banned slavery in the United States and its territories?
What is the 13th amendment
100
Abraham Lincoln's plan to restore the Confederate states to the Union.
What is the ten percent plan
100
Group in Congress wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?
Who are the radical republicans?
100
The names of the two presidents who created plans during Reconstruction
Who were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson?
200
Conferderate General that urged Southerners to accept defeat and reunite as Americans?
Who is Robert E. Lee
200
amendment grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
What is the 14th amendment?
200
laws designed to control freedmen and to help plantation owners take advantage of the former slaves.
What are Black Codes?
200
What kept President Lincoln from carrying out his Reconstruction Plans?
He was assassinated
200
Which plan called for a majority of white men to swear loyalty to the Union, and allowed former Confederate officials to vote and hold office.
What is the Johnson Plan ?
300
An escaped slave who later became an abolitionists and urged Lincoln to let his people fight?
Who is Frederick Douglas
300
What right does the 15th Amendment grant to all citizens?
The right to vote
300
Andrew Johnson's plan to restore the Confederate states to the Union.
What is the Restoration Plan
300
names of the codes that caused African Americans to lose the rights they were given?
What are Black Codes?
300
Point that the Johnson Plan and Wade-Davis Bill differed on.
What are the rights of the former Confederates?
400
President during much of Reconstruction that attempted to help African Americans gain rights?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
400
What federal agency was established to help the newly freed slaves?
The Freedman's Bureau
400
confederates used this negative term used for white southerners who supported the Republicans and Reconstruction.
What is a scalawag
400
What were Northerners called who moved to the South and took advantage of the Reconstruction policies?
Who are carpetbaggers?
500
Co-organized the women's loyal league to support Abraham Lincoln's government, especially his emancipation policy.
Who is Susan B. Anthony
500
What law was enforced by federal troops and granted equal rights to African Americans?
What is the civil rights act of 1866
500
a clause that allowed individual who couldn't pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers voted before Reconstruction.
What is grandfather clause
500
Who could not hold public office following the Civil War?
Southern Military Leaders