Reconstruction Amendments
Change to our Constitution
What is an amendment?
The meaning of Reconstruction.
What is rebuilding?
President who wanted to make it easy for Southerners to re-join the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Laws that separated whites from "persons of color"
What are Jim Crow laws?
Synonym for segregation
What is separation?
Made slavery illegal.
What is the 13th amendment?
When did Reconstruction begin?
What is after the end of the Civil War?
Wanted to preserve the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Jim Crow laws passed mainly in certain part of the country.
What are the southern state governments?
Test required to prove you could read and write in order to vote.
What is a literacy test.
Gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
Bureau created to help African-Americans after slavery became illegal.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Urged Southerners to reconcile with the North and stop fighting.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Did Jim Crow laws only prevent persons of color from entering public places? Think pictures.
No. Zoo: no Whites allowed.
When money had to be paid in order to vote.
What is poll tax.
Guaranteed equal protection under the law to all citizens.
What is the 14th amendment?
Were happy about Reconstruction and hoped for better opportunities. Were excited about the right to vote.
What are the freed slaves?
Powerful voice for human rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Phrase from Supreme Court that allowed Jim Crow laws.
What is "separate but equal"?
Two ways white Southerners tried to get around the Reconstruction amendments?
What were literacy tests and poll tax?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Northern businessmen who made money off the South.
Who were the carpetbaggers?
Said be as good citizens as you are soldiers.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Name of Supreme Court case that decided separate but equal is constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson.
What happened to the number of Blacks in Congress when Reconstruction ends?
Number decreased.