Presidents
This group supported white supremacy and used fear to prevent African American's from exercising their right to vote. (Gotta spell it out correctly!)
Ku Klux Klan
These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted freedoms and other activities of freed slaves
What are Black Codes
A separation of people based on race or religion
What is segregation
Who does the FHS Football Team play this Friday night.
Durango
This was organized to help ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, and education.
What is Freedmen's Bureau
This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union. Considered very lenient on the South.
What is the 10% Plan
This amendment is considered one of the most important in the entire US Constitution because it fundamentally redifined rights and citizenship in the USA.
14th Amendment
This actor has a birthday today! They are known for some of these famous movie characters: Dewey Finn, Nacho, Professor Shelly Oberon, Bowser, Steve, Po, & R.L. Stine
Jack Black!
This is the Radical Republican's response to the 10% Plan which required a majority of the citizens to take an oath of allegiance to join the Union and was more harsh on the South.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
This controversial event led to the official end of the Reconstruction Era and led to the Jim Crow Era
What is the Compromise of 1877
Solve the Famous Riddle:
“As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?”
One
(Extra Points if you can tell me which 90s movie made this quote famous again)
This president agreed with Radical Republicans and was a war hero.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
The period in time in which the southern states had to ratify the 14th amendment in order to join the Union and saw more progress for rights than any other plan.
What is Radical Reconstruction or Congressional Reconstruction
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a portion of the crop raised on that land. Used a TON in the South.
What is sharecropping
What famous event happened today, August 28th, in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC during the height of the Civil Rights Movement and the push for the dream that is equality.
Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech
This president was against Radical Republicans
Who is Andrew Johnson
The 15th Amendment protected suffrage, or the right to vote, for people based on ________.
Race
This amendment bans slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment
People like Thaddeus Stevens were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force radical changes in Southern life and politics
What are Radical Republicans
According to Mr. Uselman, what is the greatest attraction/ride at Disney Land?
Pirates of the Caribbean