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He became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
It is the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
What is segregation?
100
This generally refers to the period in United States history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union
What is Reconstruction?
100
This was an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding.
What is the Gilded Age?
100
They were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965
What is Jim Crow Laws?
200
He became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
It means an emancipated slave.
What is freedman?
200
These were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
What were the Black Codes?
200
This president's presidency was blighted with scandal that lost him supporters in his second election.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
This act was a United States federal law written to empower the President with the legal authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United State
What is the Force Acts?
300
He was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65).
What is Freedman's Bureau?
300
This is the right to vote in political elections
What is suffrage?
300
This is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism aimed at groups or individuals whom they opposed. The first organization sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by using violence against African American leaders.
What is the KKK?
300
This amendment declared that the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
He was America's 21st President (1881-85), succeeding President James Garfield upon his assassination.
Who is Chester Arthur?
400
This is a person who wanted to stop the institution of slavery in America. They believed in "all men are created equal."
What is an abolitionist?
400
This amendment granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
This is the practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party
What is the spoils system?
400
This act of United States is a federal law established in 1883 that decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act?
500
She was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States
Who is Elizabeth Stanton?
500
This amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
He was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He also was a supporter of women's rights.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
500
This third party was organized in St. Louis in 1892 to represent the common folk—especially farmers—against the entrenched interests of railroads, bankers, processers, corporations, and the politicians in league with such interests.
What is the Populist Party?
500
Please list the Reconstruction Amendments and the President's who passed them.
What is 13th Amendment passed by Lincoln? What is the 14th Amendment passed by Johnson? What is the 15th Amendment passed by Grant?