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Presidential Reconstruction
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The Vice President who became President of the United States after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
100
Which Amendment declared former slaves to be citizens with full civil rights?
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
True or False: The 15th Amendment guaranteed all African Americans the right to vote.
False- The 15th Amendment only gave African American males the right to vote.
100
This was a secret society of whites formed to drive African Americans out of political life. (I need the full name)
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
What was the poll tax? How did it effect African Americans?
What is a high tax that had to be paid before a person could vote. Most African Americans could not afford to pay this tax.
200
Abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
What bill declared freedmen to be full citizens with the same rights as whites?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
200
African Americans made up the South's largest group of new voters. Which political party did most African American's join? Hint: This was the political party of Abraham Lincoln and emancipation.
What is the Republican Party
200
How did the Amnesty Act of 1872 negatively effect African Americans?
What is the Amnesty Act allowed former Confederates to vote again, which allowed Democrats (pro-slavery) to regain political power in the South.
200
What were literacy tests? How did this effect African Americans?
What is literacy tests were tests that proved that a citizen could read before allowing them to vote. They were purposely rigged against African Americans so that they couldn't pass.
300
Besides medical care, what two other things did the Freedmen's Bureau provide to former slaves in the South?
What is education and food?
300
How did the Military Reconstruction Act help African Americans in the South?
What is it allowed African Americans to vote to form new governments in the South.
300
The new state constitutions in the South guaranteed the right to vote to every adult male. They also did two other things that helped African Americans come one step closer to having complete rights. What are these two things?
What is new state constitutions ended imprisonment for debt and called for the establishment of public schools.
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Congress passed three laws to stop/prevent terrorism against African Americans. What were these laws known as?
What is the Enforcement Acts?
300
What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws?
What is Jim Crow laws enforced the segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War.
400
What are two ways that the black codes severely limited freedmen's civil liberties in the South?
Black Codes severed three purposes: 1) Limit the rights of freedmen- could not vote or serve on juries in the South. 2) Helped planters to find workers to replace their slaves. Freedmen could be arrested for not having a job and then hired out to planters. Also limited freedmen to farmwork or skills requiring few skills. 3) Kept freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South. The black codes established segregation of blacks and whites in public places.
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Although sharecropping looked promising to freedmen at first, it ended up usually being more harmful than helpful. Why?
What is few freedmen ever earned enough from their crops to pay back what they owed to land owners and therefore usually caused freedmen to slip into a lifetime of poverty and debt.
400
JEOPARDY BONUS! What fraction of the South's new officeholders were African Americans? a) 1/4 b)1/5 c)1/3
What is 1/5?
400
What did the Amnesty Acts do?
What is the Amnesty Acts made it illegal to prevent another person from voting by bribery, force, or intimidation.
400
What was the result of Plessy vs. Ferguson?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson separate public facilities were constitutional as long as they were equal.
500
What did President Johnson's Reconstruction plan require former Confederate states to do?
What is ratify the 13th Amendment?
500
How did the impeachment of President Johnson end up helping freedmen?
What is Johnson's impeachment meant that Radical Republicans had taken control of congress and were therefore able to pass more bills/laws to help African Americans gain complete rights.
500
With the formation of new state government's in the South, African Americans were given the opportunity to not only vote for political positions, but were also given the opportunity to what?
What is they were also given the opportunity to be elected and hold a political position.
500
What was the result of the Compromise of 1877?
What is it removed federal troops from the South and returned rule throughout the South to former slave owners/Democrats.
500
Daily Double Bonus: African Americans argued that segregation laws violated which Reconstruction Amendment? A) 13th Amendment B)14th Amendment C) 15th Amendment
What is B) 14th Amendment