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100

Vice President to Lincoln and his successor when Lincoln was assassinated

Who is Andrew Johnson

100

State laws that were created that led to segregation in the Unites States for 83 years. 

What are Jim Crow Laws?

100
This amendment prohibited slavery, and involuntary servitude
What is the 13th amendment
100

What are 2 ways African Americans made progress during Reconstruction?

Answers will vary - teacher's discretion if correct.

100

Compared to Lincoln's and Johnson's plan Radical Republicans took a __________ approach in their reconstruction plan 

What is more strict/harsh/tough/etc?

200
assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth
200

The location where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

What is the Ford's Theater?

200
This amendment gave all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, religion, etc.
What is the 15th amendment
200

the separation of races

What is segregation?

200

An extreme member of a political party.

What is a Radical?

300

A former enslaved person who remained on the plantation and farmed to pay rent in crops. 

What is a sharecropper?

300
This group was established in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24, 1865.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
This amendment gave citizenship to freed slaves.
What is the 14th amendment
300

This political party won enough seats in Congress to override any of President Johnson's vetoes. As a result, Congress impeached President Johnson.

What are "Radical" Republicans?

300

Name 1 of 2 people that was also plotted to be assassinated the same night as President Lincoln.

Who is Andrew Johnson or William Seward.

400

The boarding house owner who "kept the nest that hatched the egg" for the assassination plot of President Lincoln. 

Who is Mary Suratt?

400

This was established within the War Department to help protect former enslaved people and help them become successful.

What is the Freedmen Bureau?

400

Poll Taxes and _____________ were created to prevent African Americans from voting. 

What are literacy tests?

400

The amount of people that had to take the oath of allegiance under President Lincoln's plan.

What is the 10% plan?

400

A white southerner that supported the Republican's reconstruction plan.

Who are scalawags?

500

He founded the Ku Klux Klan in 1865.

Who is confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest

500
The place where General Robert E. Lee surrendered, thus ending the Civil War
What is Appomattox Court House?
500

Laws that were created in the south to restrict black's freedom and rights

What are the Black Codes?

500

Describe 2 reasons the Freedmen's Bureau was not successful.

Answers will vary - teacher's discretion. 

500

The play Lincoln was watching when assassinated.

What is Our American Cousin?