Reconstruction Quiz Review

Amendments

100

This Amendment emancipated enslaved people throughout the country.

13th Amendment

200

This Amendment guaranteed the right to vote no matter your race

15th Amendment

300

This Amendment declared that anyone born in America is automatically a U.S. Citizen

14th Amendment

400

This clause of the 14th Amendment made race a protected class and prevented against discriminatory laws

Equal Protection Clause

500

This clause of the 14th Amendment stated that the government could not take away a person's life, liberty, or property without fair compensation

Due Process Clause

Groups of People

100

This group was organized to terrorize and intimidate African-American families in the South; know for distinctive uniform.

Klu Klux Klan

200

These were Northern Congressmen who wrote and passed the Reconstruction Amendments to ensure civil rights in the South

Radical Republicans

300

This group of people were Northern businessmen who took advantage of the economic instability of the South and bought farmland or former plantations

Carpetbaggers

400

These people were Southerners who opposed the Civil War and supported Republicans during Reconstruction

Scalawags

500

This was the government agency designed to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom. Gave support in education and healthcare

Freedmen's Bureau

Southern Loopholes

100

This was a payment a person must make in order to vote, often discouraged poor families from voting

Poll Tax

200

This was an impossible test given to African-American voters to keep them from voting

Literacy Test

300

This was a discriminatory law that was designed to take away the rights given to African-Americans in the Reconstruction Amendments

Black Code

400

A law that is designed to segregate society into separate but equal parts is a:

Jim Crow Law

500

This law said that you could voted if your ancestors could vote before the Civil War. Designed to exempt White voters from Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests

Grandfather Clause

Important Events

100

Andrew Johnson became President of the United States after this President was assassinated

Abraham Lincoln

200

The Reconstruction plan of this President called for healing the country quickly through not punishing the former Confederates in the South

Andrew Johnson

300

Reconstruction lasted from 1865 until this year:

1877

400

This was a Supreme Court Case that determined segregation was legal as long as conditions were "separate but equal"

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

500

This U.S. President ended Reconstruction by removing the last Northern soldiers from the South

Rutherford B. Hayes

Reconstruction Politics

100

Andrew's Johnson's plan for Reconstruction would have left major decisions on Civil Rights up to the individual ________

States

200

One negative of the Radical Republicans plan for Reconstruction was that it was that it was extremely ___________ to keep Northern troops in the South

Expensive

300

This U.S. President was a Union general during the Civil War and was very popular in the North

Ulysses S. Grant

400

This was the system in which families would rent the land they farm on from a wealthier landowner

Sharecropping

500

This term describes being trapped in debt and having to use physical labor to pay it off

Debt Peonage