This is the period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern states into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
100
The Radical Republicans passed this law to limit President Johnson's power.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
100
"I was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth because I freed the slaves..."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This is the name of Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan that stated that voters in each Southern state had to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
100
This was given to freed slaves by the Freedman's Bureau... and then taken away and returned to the original owners by President Johnson.
What is land?
200
Lincoln wanted to give this to Southerners who would promise loyalty to the Union. It means 'forgiveness.'
What is amnesty?
200
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Because he held so much power, some political cartoons during the Reconstruction pictured President Johnson as one of these.
What is a king?
200
"We hate the South. They may rejoin the Union, but we will not make it easy on them. We will humiliate them..."
Who are the Radical Republicans?
200
The Reconstruction Plans of Lincoln, the Radical Republicans, and President Johnson all had this same provision.
What is the banning of all slavery?
200
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Most of the work of the Freedman's Bureau was in the area of ________________ for freed slaves in helping them to read and write.
What is education?
300
These laws were passed in the South just after the Civil War and were aimed at controlling freed men and women, and allowing owners to take advantage of African American workers.
What are the black codes?
300
President Johnson could control Reconstruction directly because he was in charge of these individuals who governed the South.
Who are the generals?/What is the Army?
300
"White men alone must manage the South."
Who is President Johnson?
300
This plan named after two Radical Republicans stated that only whites who swore they had not fought against the Union could vote for representatives to a convention to write a new constitution.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
300
The Freedman's Bureau was created by this man... and this government group.
Who is Lincoln and the Congress?
400
**DAILY DOUBLE**
The Radical Republicans in Congress were able to do this to President Johnson's vetoes.
What is override?
400
President Johnson violated the laws of the Radical Republicans by this action.
What is suspending the Secretary of War?
400
"We were given land by the Freedman's Bureau, only to have it stolen and given back to its original owners..."
Who are the freed slaves?
400
Johnson's Reconstruction gave this thing to Southern leaders only if they asked the president for it.
What is amnesty?
400
The Freedman's Bureau was the very first one of these in United States History.
What is the first federal relief agency?
500
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were all passed by Congress. This word means 'to pass a law.'
What is ratify?
500
The Radical Republicans failed to do this in 1868 and President Johnson remained in office.
What is impeachment?
500
**DAILY DOUBLE**
"I'm a radical leader who thinks that all Southern institutions must be broken up or relaid, or all our blood and treasure will have been spent in vain."
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
500
Under which Reconstruction Plan did the 13th Amendment become law?
What is Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
500
Freed slaves were helped to read and understand these before they were asked to sign them.