Presidential Reconstruction
This president took office after Lincoln’s assassination and led the first phase of Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson
This group in Congress wanted tougher requirements for the South and full citizenship for freed people.
Who are the Radical Republicans
This amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These laws were passed by Southern state governments to control and exploit formerly enslaved people.
What are Black Codes?
Reconstruction officially ended in 1877 when this president withdrew the last federal troops from the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me...
...And no one knows, How far it goes.
President Lincoln's approach to the South(by treating them with kindness) at the end of the war can be summarized by this quote: "With _____ toward none, with charity for all"
What is Malice
This 1867 Act divided the South into five districts governed by generals and federal troops.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S. and guaranteed "equal protection of the laws".
What is the 14th Amendment?
This farming system often led to a lifetime of debt and poverty for Black farmers.
What is sharecropping?
These laws were passed by Democrats to separate Black and White people in public life.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide...
...No escape from reality
This agency was created by Congress to provide food, medical care, and schools to both Black and White people in the South. Schools were the only part that had a lasting effect.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
President Johnson was the first president in U.S. history to face this legal process after violating the Tenure of Office Act
What is Impeachment
This amendment protected the right of African American men to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This secret society used violence and terror to drive African Americans out of political life while trying to return White Democrats to power. Congress enacted the Enforcement Acts to stop this violence from deterring political participation.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1896 Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
MOVIE: “I have an army.” ...
We have a Hulk
Under Johnson’s plan, Southern states had to ratify this amendment to rejoin the Union.
What is the 13th Amendment
As a result of the Military Reconstruction Act, this group became the largest block of new Southern voters.
Who are African Americans?
Southern states were forced to ratify these two amendments before they could finish the final step of Reconstruction in 1870.
What are the 14th and 15th Amendments?
These two derogatory terms were used for White Southerners who supported Republicans and Northerners who moved South.
What are "scalawags" and "carpetbaggers"?
To deny Black Southerners the right to vote, states implemented literacy tests and this type of payment.
What is a Poll Tax?
“Lately, I been, I been losing sleep...
...dreaming about the things that we could be”
Johnson’s plan was considered "finished" by late 1865 because states had written new constitutions, elected governments, and cancelled these
What is War Debts
These two leaders from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts led the Radical Republicans in Congress. Name one
Who are Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner?
Segregationists argued that Jim Crow laws did not violate this specific amendment as long as facilities were "equal".
What is the 14th Amendment?
The South was divided into five of these to ensure state governments were formed legally.
What are military districts?
These two all-Black U.S. Cavalry units fought on the Western frontier and later became some of the first national park rangers.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag...
...drifting through the wind, wanting to start again”