Vocabulary
Goals for Reconstruction
The Amendments
Facts
Economy
100
To accept an amendment
What is ratify
100
Abraham Lincoln's goals were to
What is preserve the union and to end the Civil War as quickly as possible.
100
This amendment gave the right for Africans to be citizens
What is The 14th amendment
100
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth
100
This group of people moved north packing all of their belongings in carpet bags to line their own pockets
What is carpetbaggers.
200
Persons who were former slaves
What is Freedmen
200
Johnson's goals were to
What is humiliate the southern elite
200
This amendment freed slaves
What is 13th amendment
200
When was Abraham Lincoln assassinated
What is April 15, 1865
200
Poor white who supported the Republicans and what they believed were called __________________ by southern elite
What is scalawags
300
To get rid of slavery
What is abolish
300
Southerner's goals were to end the war but,
What is they didn't want anything to change
300
This amendment gave all men the right to vote
What is 15th amendment
300
Lincoln promised that if 10% of southern states____________, then the states could form a new state government, elect representatives to congress, and participate fully in the union again.
What is pledge allegiance to United States
300
Freed slaves earned a living by
What is sharecropping
400
To add to the constitution
What is amendment
400
The United State's goals were to make sure the war was not in vain and that
What is freed slaves would remain free
400
This amendment was not the same as the Emancipation Proclamation, but it did the same as the proclamation
What is 13th amendment
400
This government agency protected the rights of African Americans and poor whites, gave them food, shelter, and an education
What is Freedmen's Bureau
400
What did Lincoln promise southerners after the civil war was over
What is easy reconstruction and to heal and unite the country
500
To rebuild
What is Reconstruction
500
Southern African Americans main goal was to vote and be elected, independence, right to choose church, education and be
What is united with family
500
The overall purpose of the amendments
What is protect the rights of African Americans
500
This group wanted whites to regain control of state governments
What is Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
500
Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated?
What is Andrew Johnson