Amendments
True or False:
All people regardless of race, color, or gender received rights under the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
False (Women, and Native Americans did NOT receive full rights.
What was the name of the group responsible for helping formerly enslaved African Americans?
Freedmen's Bureau
This leader was assassinated before his plan for Reconstruction was finished
Abraham Lincoln
What movement did Lee become a leader for after his death?
Lost Cause Movement
A compromise in which election led to the end of Reconstruction?
The Election of 1876
The 14th Amendment states that ________.
All persons born in the US are US citizens
This was the name given to laws enacted in Southern states to limit the economic and physical freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
This leader urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners when many wanted to still fight.
Robert E. Lee
True or False (Correct the statement if false):
Robert E. Lee stayed silent about progressive amendments giving equality to African Americans
True
True or False (correct the statement if false):
At the end of Reconstruction, federal troops were removed from the South
True
The 13th amendment states that ___________.
Slavery is banned in all US owned territory.
True or False (Fix the statement if false):
Southern state delegates liked the new Reconstruction governments, and kept them for many years.
False (They disliked them and worked to replace them asap)
Abraham Lincoln said that Southern states could be readmitted into the Union after _____% of people accepted the end of slavery.
10%
This Reconstruction leader was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties
Frederick Douglass
Though African Americans gained rights by the end of Reconstruction, these laws were created to segregate African Americans and whites soon after the end of Reconstruction.
Jim Crow Laws
The 15th amendment states that ____________
ensures all citizens the right to vote reglardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
By the 1870s, which political party held most states under their control?
Democrats
This person was a former slave, that fought for the adoption of new constitutional amendments.
Frederick Douglass
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford's Theater in Washington D.C.
Starting in 1890, Southern state legislators passed laws that prevented African American men from ___________.
Voting
What is an amendment?
A change for the better
With the new Reconstruction plan after Lincoln's death, how would seceded states be reentered into the union?
By rewriting their state constitution to accept the 14th amendment.
This person died in 1870, before the end of Reconstruction
Robert E. Lee
The Lost Cause movement viewed Confederate leaders as _________
Fighters for a just cause, rather than fighters for a nation based on slavery
Where did Frederick Douglass die?
Rochester, N.Y.