Men of Honor
What is Reconstruction?
This group of soldiers supervised the Southern states.
What are federal troops?
The mnemonic device following 13, 14, 15...
What is SUV?
Reconstruction ended in this year.
What is 1877?
This man of honor believed preserving and SUSTAINING the Union was more important than punishing the South.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is vote?
This amendment guarantees the right to vote for all male citizens, regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Reconstruction ended in 1877 as a result of a compromise over the outcome of the election of 1876, leading to these people being removed from the South.
What are federal troops?
This man of honor fought for constitutional RIGHTS.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This agency was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This amendment guarantees everyone born in the U.S. is a citizen and has equal protection of the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Rights that African Americans had gained were lost through these laws.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This man of honor believed the South should reconcile with the North, and accept defeat.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Southern states adopted these codes to limit freedoms of the former slaves.
What are Black Codes?
This amendment bans slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The court case that led to the Supreme Court declaring segregation is legal, as long as it is "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The year Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
What is 1865?
After the Civil War, this group of rebel leaders were not allowed to be elected to public office.
What are Confederate leaders?
This mixed-race man decided to challenge Jim Crow Laws, stating the 14th Amendment protected him from segregation.
Who is Homer Plessy?
He became President of the United States as a result of the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?