General questions
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The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring Southern states back into the Union.
What was Reconstruction?
This was the Supreme Court case that made segregation legal.
Plessy vs Ferguson
Go again if correct
They were laws that established segregation and separation of the races and reinforced discrimination and prejudices held by whites.
"Jim Crow" laws
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What amendment is the current leaders of our government trying to overturn?
Hint: It involves birth right citizenship
14th Amendment
He was president after Andrew Johnson.
Ulysses S. Grant
Bonus: what did Grant do as president?
What was the big terrorist group in the era called?
Ku klux klan
The promise of giving Confederate land to freedmen after the Civil War, but this was eventually rescinded after Lincoln’s assassination.
40 acers and a mule
Bonus: What famous Black director uses this term for his production company?
Define the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment.
1. Abolished slavery.
2. Guaranteed rights of citizenship.
3. Prohibited discrimination in voting privileges based on race.
What country did Grant want to annex because he thought the crops grown there would help our economy.
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
Under Andrew Johnson former _______ were able to ruse to power again in the South.
Confederates
Bonus: What else did Andrew Johnson do to prevent freedmen from gaining rights and freedoms? (200 for each correct answer)
A government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African-Americans and others in Virginia and elsewhere.
What was the freedman’s bureau?
This was the myth spread by former Confederates about the Civil war that distorts the real history.
The Lost Cause
Bonus: give 3 myths of the Lost Cause
What were Black Codes?
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War.
Who were the presidents during Reconstruction?
Lincoln, Johnson, Grant
Go again if correct
He was the first Black Congressmen.
Joseph Rainey
A system in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop.
What was sharecropping?
How did African Americans use the rights they gained during Reconstruction?
Used the right to vote
Elected other African Americans into political offices
Fought for education
Fought for land ownership
What happened to the rights of African-Americans after Reconstruction?
All the gains the had made were lost with the establishment of "Jim Crow" laws?
They were the political group that controlled Congress at the start of Reconstruction. They wanted to punish the South and give freedmen rights.
The Radical Republicans
He was 1/8th black and sat in the "white car" on a train and was arrested. His trial reached the Supreme Court.
Homer Plessy
Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden in this very close election that almost resulted in another Civil War.
Election of 1876
He was the president that ended Reconstruction.
Name the deal that was made that ended Reconstruction.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The Compromise of 1877
They ancestors are Confederates and they helped spread the lies of the Lost Cause.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy
What were the main goals or Reconstruction, and were they achieved?
Rebuild the South after the Civil War, ensure the rights of newly freed slaves, reunify the nation, etc.
Who was Hiram Revels?
The first African American to serve in the U.S. senate during Reconstruction, representing Mississippi.