Amendments/Q&A
What amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the USA?
14th Amendment
What is the name of the period of time after the Civil War when the US government is rebuilding the South?
Reconstruction
What are the 3 Reconstruction Plans?
2. Johnson's Plan
3. Radical Republicans' Plan
Abraham Lincoln
Cats or dogs?
Cats
Which amendment banned slavery across the country?
13th Amendment
What region (North/South) were Republicans mainly from?
What region were Democrats mainly from?
North = Republicans
South = Democrats
What were the main requirements for southern states in Abraham Lincoln's 10% plan?
1. At least 10% of voters had to swear loyalty to the USA.
2. Each state must abolish slavery.
What is another name for a government pardon or forgiveness?
Amnesty
Movies or TV shows?
TV shows
What amendment allowed any male US citizen to vote regardless of their race, color, or previous servitude?
15th Amendment
What is white supremacy?
The belief that the white race is superior and therefore should dominate society. This tends to include mistreating racial and ethnic minority groups.
What were the main requirements for southern states in Andrew Johnson's plan?
1. A majority (at least 51%) of voters must swear loyalty to the USA.
2. Each state must pass the 13th Amendment.
What do you call legal separation based on racial, ethnic or other differences?
Segregation
Coke or Pepsi?
Coca-Cola
What group of Americans were excluded from the 14th Amendment?
Native Americans
A reading exam people were required to take to prove they are "smart enough" to vote.
Literacy tests
What were the main requirements for southern states in the Radical Republicans' Plan?
1. Must allow Black men to vote.
2. Must pass the 14th Amendment.
3. Must follow the Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
What were the laws called that separated people of different races in almost every aspect of life in the South?
Jim Crow laws
What is an abolitionist?
What happened to Abraham Lincoln 5 days after the Civil War ended?
He was assassinated.
What is the name of the southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil war?
Black codes
According to Lincoln's 10% plan, who COULD and COULD NOT be granted amnesty?
Confederate soldiers COULD, but Confederate leaders COULD NOT.
What is the name of the secret society created in the South after the Civil War whose goal was to reassert white supremacy by using violence?
Ku Klux Klan
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Harriet Tubman was a Black woman and abolitionist. She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She was responsible for leading hundreds and hundreds of escaped slaves to freedom.
Andrew Johnson
What is it called when a person is required to pay a fee or certain amount of money to vote?
Poll Tax
Under Andrew Johnson's plan, who could be granted amnesty?
Literally anyone in the South who applied for amnesty.
What is the name of the government agency created during Reconstruction to help former slaves set up their new lives in the USA as freedmen?
Freedmen's Bureau
Hello Kitty or Spongebob?
Hello Kitty
State the 14th Amendment
"all persons born or naturalized in the Unite States," are now US citizens that are "guaranteed equal protection of the laws"
What is it called when a person rents a plot of land from a landowner and farms it in an exchange for its crop. They were not paid a wage/salary and had to pay back their rent (farmland, tools, housing, food) in crops.
Sharecropping or sharecropper
Why did Republicans oppose Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
They believed it was too easy on the South and the South should be punished more.
What is the name of laws that said if a person's father or grandfather could vote in 1867, then they could vote without having to pay a poll tax or take a literacy test.
Grandfather clause
What is the capital of Nebraska?
Lincoln
State the 15th Amendment
All male US citizens have the right to vote regardless of their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Which group of Americans were literacy tests supposed to hurt? EXPLAIN WHY.
Black men.
Most Black men had no formal education due to being slaves during and before the Civil War. Because of this many could not pass the reading tests required for them to vote.
Which plan(s) forgave the South?
Which plan(s) punished the South?
Forgave: Lincoln's 10% & Johnson's Plan
Punish: Radical Republicans' Plan
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Who is going to win the 2023 NBA finals?
New York Knicks
State the 13th Amendment.
Slavery and involuntary servitude are banned across the United States.
1896 court case in which Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal
Plessy versus Ferguson
What were the two goals of the Radical Republicans?
1) break up the power of wealthy plantation owners in the South
2) ensure freeman had the right to vote
Who did the Freedmen's Bureau help during Reconstruction? How did it help?
Government agency to help former slaves with:
-food and clothing
-jobs
-medical care
-set up schools for freedmen
6(x + 7) = 48
What is x?
x = 1
After the 13th Amendment is passed, what is the only way slavery could still be used in the USA?
Slavery was still used as punishment for a crime.
What were men and women who used to be slaves called?
Freedmen
Which group of Americans were poll taxes supposed to hurt? EXPLAIN WHY
Black men. As Black Americans entered society as freedmen they had a difficult time making money because white business owners did not want to hire or pay them. Because of this, many Black Americans were impoverished and unable to pay the poll tax required to vote.
Who were grandfather clauses supposed to help? BE SPECIFIC
POOR white men. These laws were made to make sure poor white men in the South could still vote even if they couldn't pay the poll tax or pass the literacy test.
Who is Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a slave who escaped and became one of the most famous abolitionists before, during, and after the Civil War. He wrote books, gave speeches, and tried to convince Abraham Lincoln to abolish slavery.
Why do Black women and women of color have a unique perspective that is valuable to politics and how the United States is run?
Women of color are double discriminated against. Once because of the color of their skin and once for being women. Because of this they are best equipped to help create an equitable American society in which everyone is equal and treated as such.
Why were people who were sharecroppers stuck in an endless cycle of poverty?
Sharecroppers were required to pay back their debts with the crops they harvested. By the time they had paid all of their debts off for the year there was very little harvest left over for them to try and make money with. This forced them to continue sharecropping so they didn't become homeless/arrested/etc.
The Supreme Court said that segregation was legal as long as facilities were "separate but equal."
Were facilities actually separate but equal? EXPLAIN WHY.
No, facilities were not separate but equal. It was just an excuse to allow legal segregation. The quality of facilities for Black Americans were MUCH worse than the facilities for white Americans.
After the South lost the Civil War, why did southern states want to rejoin the USA so bad?
The South had been utterly destroyed by the war. Without the help of the US government, the South would have suffered for a very long time trying to rebuild on their own. They didn't have any money, food, or other resources (railroad tracks, telegraph lines, farm equipment, buildings, etc.).
What is Mr. Cada's middle name?
Jerome