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This President began planning reconstruction prior to the end of the Civil War.
Who is President Lincoln? +50
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th? -50
This made social segregation legal.
What are Jim Crow Laws? +10
Giving out supplies, setting up hospitals, and founding schools were all actions taken by this group.
Who is the Freedmen's Bureau? -10
How many military districts in the South were established during Reconstruction?
What is 5? +25
This U.S. President was impeached for opposing Radical Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson? -25
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US.
What is the 14th? +10
These are the legal restrictions on black civil rights that started in 1865 and 1866.
What are Black Codes? +10
This group used violence to intimidate Black voters and politicians during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan? -10
Land, farm equipment and seeds were all provided by the landowner under this system.
What is the sharecropping system? -10
This man was U.S. President during most of Reconstruction, leading efforts to protect African American rights.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant? +25
This amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th? -10
Dividing the South into military districts and enforce new laws protecting African American rights was the purpose of this.
What is the Reconstruction Acts of 1867? +25
This group of people were widely elected to office during Reconstruction.
Who are Black Americans? +25
The failure of this allowed segregation, discrimination, and violence against African Americans to continue for decades.
What is Reconstruction? -10
This person issued Special Field Order 15.
Who is General Sherman? +30
This amendment allowed slavery in some instances.
What is the 13th Amendment? -40
This legislative act gave African American the rights and privileges of full citizenship and resulted in several amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866? +35
Southern Democrats who believed they were saving the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and Black control called themselves this.
Redeemers -35
This was the term given to the system that allowed African American men to receive the right to vote and hold political office.
What is Radical Reconstruction? +15
This person became president, ending Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes? +40
This amendment granted equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment? +35
Removal of federal troops from the south, Allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president, and the Democratic party retook control of the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877? -30
This political party opposed the President Johnson and had more inclusive plans for Reconstruction.
What is The Republican Party? +15
This era provided citizenship, guaranteed due process, and created an interracial democracy, as well as educational and financial systems.
What is Reconstruction? -20