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This document freed the slaves in all areas that had rebelled against the United States. Abe wrote it.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Congressional plan for Reconstruction that Lincoln refused to sign.
What is Wade-Davis Bill?
100
Antislavery Republican elected to the presidency in 1860. He wrote the Emancipation proclamation that lead to the end of slavery. He was the President of the United States during the Civil War and he starred in movie as a Vampire Slavery.
What is ole Honest Abe? (Abraham Lincoln)
100
Laws passed in the South to keep freedmen in a slavelike condition.
What is Black Codes?
100
What did the Fourteenth Amendment give to African Americans?
The Civil Rights Act.
200
A constitutional amendment ending slavery in the United States.
What is Thirteenth Amendment?
200
It made African Americans citizens; gave them the benifits whites had.
What is Civil Rights Act?
200
Lincoln's vice president, who became president after his assassination.
What is Andrew Johnson?
200
A government organization aimed at helping blacks and whites southerns who had lost their homes in the fighting?
What is Freedman's Bureau?
200
How many people were murdered by white southern terrorists?
What is 1000's?
300
Amendment sating people cannot be denied the right to vote because of their race.
What is Fifteenth Amendment?
300
Stricter laws passed by Radical Republicans?
What is Reconstruction Acts?
300
A southerner who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln.
What is John Wilkes Booth?
300
A farming system where the farmer was an employee of the landowner and received a share of the crop.
What is Sharecropping?
300
How did white southerners feel about Johnson's approach to Reconstruction?
They welcomed Johnson's approach?
400
Amendment that wrote the Civil Rights Act into the Constitution.
What is fourteenth amendment?
400
Law that set aside 45 million acres of government-owned land in several southern states to provide free farms for African Americans.
What is Southern Homestead Act?
400
The names of two states who were a part of the Confederacy or the South. (wanted Slavery)
What is Member State Secessionist & Confederate State Flags Ordinance of Secession Admission to Confederacy Predominant Union control Readmitted to representation in U.S. Congress South Carolina SC-SovFlag.svg South Carolina Jan 1861.svg Dec 20, 1860 Feb 8, 1861 1865 July 9, 1868 Mississippi Mississippi 1861.svg Jan 9, 1861 Feb 8, 1861 1863 Feb 23, 1870 Florida Florida Provisional 1861.svg Florida 1861.svg Jan 10, 1861 Feb 8, 1861 1865 June 25, 1868 Alabama Alabama 1861 Obverse.svg Alabama 1861 Reverse.svg Jan 11, 1861 Feb 8, 1861 1865 July 13, 1868 Georgia Red Star Flag.png Flag of Georgia non official.svg Jan 19, 1861 Feb 8, 1861 1865 1st Date July 21, 1868; 2nd Date July 15, 1870 Louisiana Louisiana Feb 11 1861.svg Jan 26, 1861 Feb 8, 1861 1863 July 9, 1868 Texas Flag of Texas.svg Feb 1, 1861 March 2, 1861 1865 March 30, 1870 Virginia Flag of Virginia.svg April 17, 1861 May 7, 1861 1865 West Virginia: 1862 Jan 26, 1870 West Virginia: June 20, 1863 Arkansas Proposed Arkansas flag (1910).svg May 6, 1861 May 18, 1861 1864 June 22, 1868 North Carolina North Carolina 1861.svg May 20, 1861 May 21, 1861 1865 July 4, 1868 Tennessee
400
A process for charging a federal official with a crime.
What is Impeachment?
400
Why were many freedmen not able to take advantage of the Southern Homestead Act?
They could not afford to buy seed, animals, and supplies.
500
Lincoln's plan for readmitting southern states to the Union?
What is Ten Percent Plan?
500
Laws with heavy penalties for anyone who tried to prevent a qualified citizen from voting?
What is Enforcement Acts?
500
Name two Union States during the Civil War or the North. (Wanted to end slavery)
What is California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
500
When the president prevents a bill's passage by ignoring it.
What is pocket veto?
500
Why did African Americans lose faith in Reconstruction?
Government Corruption in Grant's Administration.