General Facts
Reconstruction Amendments
Presidential Reconstruction
The KKK
Military Reconstruction Act
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What is the amount of time the reconstruction period lasted?
nearly 12 years
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What is the amount of amendments ratified during reconstruction?
three amendments
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Who is pictured above? (hint: 17th US president.)
Andrew Johnson
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What does the KKK stand for
the Ku Klux Klan
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What was the year that the Military Reconstruction Act was passed?
1867
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What is the war that caused the reconstruction period?
The American Civil War
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What are the names of the three amendments passed during reconstruction?
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments
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What was a requirement in President Andrew Johnson's plan for Presidential Reconstruction?
To ratify the 13th amendment
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What were the two groups of people that the Klan directed violence towards?
White Radical Republicans and African Americans (mainly African Americans.)
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What was a requirement of the south to be reamitted to the union?
To pass the 13th and 14th amendments
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What is the name of the president who started reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
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What is the purpose of the 13th amendment?
To abolish slavery
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President Andrew Johnson is seen to some as?
a racist
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Who are the people that founded the Ku Klux Klan?
A group of confederate soldiers
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What was also a requirement of the south in order to be reamitted to the union?
Hold new elections
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What is the political party that most white southerners belonged to during reconstruction?
The Democratic Party
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What was the purpose of the 15th amendment?
Granting African American men the right to vote
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What was an effect of President Andrew Johnson's presidential reconstruction plan?
Restored power in white southern governments
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What were some of the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan? (at least two.)
Beatings, lynchings, arson, and voter intimidation
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What was an effect of the Military Reconstruction Act?
the south being divided into five military districts
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Why was Johnson in control?
Lincoln was assassinated, Andrew Johnson was the vice president.
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Republicans wanted to protect black male suffrage...proposed __th ___________...ratified by enough states by March 1870 to be added to Constitution
15th Amendment
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What were laws passed by southern states during presidential reconstruction to restrict African American's freedom?
Black codes
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Goals of the KKK: (at least one)
*drive northern reformers & politicians out of South
*prevent African Americans from exercising civil rights, such as voting
*regain control of the South for white Democrats
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What was the main goal of the Military Reconstruction Act?
to get southern sates to comply with reentry into the union