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100
The President who ended the Civil War and began Reconstruction.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The group who terrorized African Americans in the South.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
This Amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
A northerner who came to the South during Reconstruction for financial or political reasons.
What is a carpetbagger?
100
African Americans who had nowhere to live, no tools to use, or no land to farm, often resorted to this type of work.
What is sharecropping?
200
The President who was Abraham Lincoln's Vice President from Tennessee.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
The group who wanted Reconstruction to be very harsh and strict.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
200
This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
When people had to pay money in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
200
The name of the organization that helped people with jobs and education during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
The President who had previously been a Union Army general.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
The man who assassinated President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
300
This Amendment says that all people born in the United States are citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
A southerner who supported Reconstruction efforts.
What is a scalawag?
300
What year did Reconstruction end?
What is 1877?
400
The President who took over when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
The man who rode in a 'white' street car in New Orleans and then ended up in court for it.
Who is Homer Plessy?
400
These laws were used to control slaves in the South.
What are black codes?
400
This allowed white southerners who couldn't read to vote even though African Americans had to take a test.
What is the grandfather clause?
400
What was the name of the Radical Republicans' Reconstruction plan that was proposed during Abraham Lincoln's Presidency?
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
500
The President who declared an end to Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
The Nation's 1st African American Senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
500
The nickname for 'separate, but equal' laws.
What are 'Jim Crow' laws?
500
The process of removing a President from office.
What is impeachment?
500
Who was the only other American President (other than Andrew Johnson) to be impeached?
Who is Bill Clinton?