Amendments
Key People & Groups
Laws & Policies
Reconstruction Politics
Miscellaneous
100
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
This president took over after Lincoln’s assassination and clashed with Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
This act gave citizenship to all born in the U.S. (except Native Americans).
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
100
These Northerners moved South during Reconstruction, often resented by Southerners.
Who are carpetbaggers?
100
A major success of Reconstruction was the passage of these three amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
200
This amendment guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This political group pushed for strict Reconstruction and civil rights for freedpeople.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
200
This 1873 law tried to guarantee equal access to public places like transportation.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1873?
200
These Southerners supported Reconstruction and worked with Republicans.
Who are scalawags?
200
Identify one goal of Reconstruction.
Bring union back together, rebuild South, give civil and political rights to freedpeople
300
This amendment gave voting rights to African American men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
This president ended Reconstruction after making a deal in the election of 1876.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
300
This law was passed to stop groups like the KKK from using violence to intimidate voters.
What is the Enforcement Act of 1870?
300
This amendment most likely led to the situation in the image below.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Identify and describe one way in which ex-Confederates opposed Reconstruction.
Sharecropping, black codes, KKK
400
These laws in the South tried to get around the new rights granted by the amendments.
What are the Black Codes?
400
This government agency provided schools, food, and legal help for freedpeople.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
400
This farming system replaced slavery but often trapped people in cycles of debt.
What is sharecropping?
400
This major difference separated Presidential Reconstruction from Congressional Reconstruction.
Congressional Reconstruction gave more protections for African Americans, while Presidential Reconstruction was more lenient
400
The number of years Mrs. Gall has taught at GHS.
What is 2?
500
This act divided the South into five military districts until they met certain requirements.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
500
This secret organization used violence and terror to stop Reconstruction and black voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
500
This 1877 agreement ended Reconstruction in exchange for Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
This plan, proposed during the Civil War, promised freedpeople land but went unfulfilled
What is “40 acres and a mule”?
500
President after Andrew Johnson.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?