People
I assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Formal changes to a document.
What is an amendment?
Amendment that made slavery illegal?
What is the 13th Amendment?
The year the Civil War began.
What is 1861?
Terrorist organization that promoted white supremacy and used violence to block the civil rights of newly freed African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Nickname for the group in the U.S. Congress who ushered in the Reconstruction Amendments.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of the Emancipation Day for the enslaved in Texas.
What is Juneteenth?
Amendment that allowed all MALE U.S. citizens the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The year the Civil War ended.
What is 1865?
Organization set up by the federal government to help newly freed African Americans get established in life (education, marriage licenses, voting, food, shelter, etc.)
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The 16th President of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
Laws that forcefully separated people of different races.
What are Jim Crow laws (segregation)?
The starting year of the Reconstruction Era.
What is 1865?
To rejoin the Union, the Southern states had to write new state __________
What are constitutions?
The 17th President of the United States and the first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
A person who works on a farm but does not own it and has to pay rent in the form of crops.
What is a sharecropper?
Amendment that allowed all people born in the U.S. to be citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The ending year of the Reconstruction Era.
What is 1877?
He was a leader of the Radical Republicans and helped to draft the 14th Amendment.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
His contested election for president lead to the end of Reconstruction.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
People who took advantage of Reconstruction to make a profit in the South.
What are carpetbaggers?
Federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
April 14, 1865
What is the day that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Who was Hiram Revels?