Laws & Government
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolished slavery
Name all 3 for 300 extra points.
Local
State
National
First black governor in U.S. history.
BONUS: Steal 200 points from another team if you can name the state that he was governor of.
P.B.S. Pinchback
BONUS: Louisiana (LA)
Name 1 of the 2 first black US Senators.
BONUS: Name both for 1 extra shot.
Blanche Bruce OR Hiram Revels
State laws that limited the freedom of ex-slaves.
Black Codes
What did the 14th amendment do?
Granted citizenship to former slaves.
The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
BONUS: If you can name the location Lincoln was assassinated you can either choose a team to get skipped OR get 1 extra shot.
John Wilkes Booth
BONUS: Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
The first and only commissioner to the Freedman's Bureau.
BONUS: If you can state the name of the establishment that is named after him you can steal 200 points from another team.
Oliver Otis Howard
BONUS: Howard University
White supremacist terrorist group that focused on the oppresion of blacks often through violence in the forms of murder, lynching, beating, torture, rape, or burned.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction for financial gain.
Carpetbagger
What did the 15th amendment do?
Gave black males the right to vote.
How did Andrew Johnson's presidency end?
He was impeached by Congress.
After slavery was abolished, what famous, former slave dedicated his life to the fair and just treatment of Blacks.
BONUS: What was 1 of the 2 ways in which he went about inspiring and effecting change.
Frederick Douglass
BONUS: Printed Work OR Public Speaking
What is this describing?
- Cultivated land blacks did not own, keeping a small part and paying the rest as rent.
Sharecropping
Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.
BONUS: Steal 200 points from another team if you can name the political party they belonged to?
Scalawags
BONUS: Republican Party
Reconstruction ended when the ___________ party lost its power in the ________________ states.
Republican; Southern
Congress organized the____________ ___________ which helped blacks find jobs, protected their rights, and established hospitals and schools for them.
Freedmen’s Bureau
Who became President after Andrew Johnson and how many terms/years did he serve as president?
Ulysses S Grant (8 years/2 terms)
BONUS: If you can name one more you get 2 extra shots!
- Allowed to whip workers
- Limited speech,travel, and denied right to vote
- Put unemployed blacks in jail and prevented them from testifying against whites in court.
- White Southerners used the “B.C.” in order to keep African Americans in the same position as before the War.
At the close of the Civil War and shortly after the creation of the 13th amendment, Lincoln called for a period of "________________".
It lasted from 18___ - 18__. (20 years)
Reconstruction; 1857-77
What were 1 of the 3 ways people tried to keep blacks from voting under "Black Codes"
BONUS: Name all 3 and you can steal 1 player. Name 2 of the 3 and you can shoot 2 extra shots.
1.Grandfather Clause - Grandfather must have be free for blacks to vote
2. Literacy Tests
3. Poll Tax - Had to pay to vote
Name any 1 of the 4 goals of the reconstruction era.
BONUS: Name 3 of the 4 goals and you can either swap a team member out OR get 2 extra shots.
Rebuild the South
Solve its political problems
Solve economic problems
Solve social problems.
What were one of the three reasons that "Radical Republicans" believed Andrew Johnsons plan had failed or that he was not a good president?
BONUS: Name all 3 and you can swap 1 player with another team OR steal 300 points from another team.
1. Black Codes and KKK continued to discriminate against blacks.
2. Newly elected congressmen from the South were former Confederate officials.
3. Distrusted Johnson because he was from the South.
Guaranteed legal rights to blacks
BONUS: If you get this right, steal 1 player to have on your team OR swap 1 player on another team with someone else's team member.
What year was the answer above passed?
Civil Rights Act
BONUS: (1875)
Restrictions on Southern states who didn’t pass the 14th amendment.
The Reconstruction Act