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Reconstruction Facts
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Name that Amendment
Which Person
Sharecropping, Slavery or Both
100

Reconstruction Started in this year

1865

100

Gain 100 points and take away 300 points from any team if you answer correctly.

The promise of giving land to freedmen.

40 Acers and a Mule

100

Gave all citizens the right to vote 

15th 

100
Famously signed the Emancipation Proclamation into law
Abraham Lincoln 
100

Workers received 0 pay no matter what 

Slavery

200

Reconstruction was primarily focused on this region of the country

The South

200

Double Jeopardy

They help the majority of seats in Congress and wanted to punish the South, as well as give freed slaves all the rights they deserved. 

Radical Republicans 

200

Gave former slaves citizenship

14th

200

He vetoed the 14th Amendment.

Andrew Johnson

200

Gain 200 points and take away 200 from any team.

Workers were held to the land by debt

Sharecropping 

300

This man was president during the first part of Reconstruction.

Andrew Johnson

300

This government agency made marriages between freed slaves legal and reunited families.

The Freedmen's Bureau

300

Outlawed Slavery

13th

300

Double Jeopardy

He created the Freedmen's Bureau 

Oliver Howard

300

Workers could not attend school, church, or other group gatherings 

Slavery

400

This political party opposed president Andrew Johnson, and outvoted Johnson on several occasions. 

The Republican Party

400

This was a system of employment in which a farmer agreed to work the land and give a portion of the crops to the land owner.

Sharecropping

400

Assured all citizens would receive "Due Process" including African Americans 

14th

400

Died in Ford's Theater 

Lincoln

400

Workers lived in extremely tight living quarters 

Both

500

Which statement about Andrew Johnson is FASLE?

A-He was a Southerner, but was against the South seceding
B-He vetoed the 14th Amendment, but Congress overruled him

C-He was elected president

D-He was the first presidentCongress tried to impeach

C-He was elected president

500

He was considered the "King of Soul", who wrote the song "Chain Gang" after seeing one working on a highway.

Sam Cooke

500

Gave all citizens the right to possess a weapon for self defense

2nd 

500

He is currently buried in "Grants Tomb" located in NYC.

Ulysses S. Grant 

500

Workers were taken advantage of by landowners 

Both