Amendments/Laws
What are the 3 Amendments that are known as the Reconstruction Amendments?
What group in Congress pushed back against Andrew Johnson?
Radical Republicans
What does literacy mean?
The ability to understand and comprehend different types of media
Who create the Wade-Davis Bill?
Radical Republicans
What is one example of disenfranchisement during the Reconstruction Era?
Grandfather clauses
Literacy Test
Poll Tax
What is the 13th Amendment?
Banning slavery in the U.S
Who were the two Presidents during the Reconstruction Era?
Lincoln and Johnson
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What plan wanted to punish the South for trying to secede from the Union?
Radical Republicans in Congress
Name one success and failure of Reconstruction
many different answers
What is the 15th Amendment
Citizens have the right to vote
Name two differences between Lincoln and Johnson
many answers
What does amnesty mean?
To pardon someone
What plan when the easiest on the Southerner rejoining the Union? WHY?
Johnson - grew up in the South, had trouble compromising with the Radical Republicans, Southern Democrat
Granted services to former slaves and poor Southerners to help support them after the Civil War
Which Civil Right Act started the movement to create the 14th Amendment?
Civil Right Act of 1866
What group makes up the Legislative Branch?
Congress
Bonus if put Senate and House of Representatives
What does disenfranchise mean?
To take away/hinder rights especially the right to vote
What was the final plan enforced by the government to solve Reconstruction
Reconstruction Act of 1867
What were the Black Codes?
What Amendment opened the doors for African American men to serve in Congress?
14th Amendment
Who created the Freedmen's Bureau?
Lincoln and Congress (Radical Republicans)
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What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 state?
Spilt the South into five military districts, make them approve new state constitution with the 14th Amendment. Many state began to have Black men as delegate however short lived due to violence
Which Civil Rights Act was later deemed unconstitutional (unlawful)
Civil Rights Act of 1875