Reconstruction Amendments
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Plans
Unit one
African Americans
100
How did the 13th Amendment expand the rights of slavery
What is Abolished slavery
100
Who did the 13th Amendment apply to
What is Slaves
100
What was lincoln's Plan
What is the ten percent plan
100
Why was Andrew Johnson Impeached ?
Congress did not like how he was managing reconstruction
100
Define Jim Crow Laws
state and local laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 that discriminated against blacks
200
How did the 14th Amendment expand the rights of African Americans
It gave African Americans "full and equal benefits of all laws"
200
What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights
To give individual rights to citizens under the constitution
200
What was the purpose of the ten percent plan
The purpose was to reestablish peace between the union and confederate states
200
What was the outcome of presidential election of 1876
Rutherford Hayes won votes by a bitter electoral dispute
200
How did the jim crow laws impact African Americans
African Americans were not allowed to have the same conditions and other governmental services the whites received for example public transportation
300
How did the 15th Amendment expand the rights of African Americans
It gave African Americans the right to vote
300
Define Carpetbagger
They were northerners who went south after the civil war to help freedom and reconstruction
300
What was the Radical Republican Plan
They wanted the south to pay heavily before coming back to the u.s govt
300
Summary of the Compromise of 1877
It was an informal deal that settled the dispute u.s election of 1876, it said that Hayes would remove federal troops in republican states
300
Some examples of segregation
They were different schools,busses, bathrooms, water fountains, movies, trains...etc.
400
How does the Emancipation Proclamation Differ from the 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment freed all slaves While the EP Freed Confederate(southern) slaves
400
What year did the civil war end
What is 1865
400
What was Johnson's Plan
To allow southerners who pledged an oath allegiance to the federal govt to regain citizenship , he offered amnesty
400
What was the main idea of Freedmen Bureau
To educate Slaves and protect the rights of freedmen
400
What was the impact of plessey v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education
Plessey v. Ferguson made it illegal to discriminate against African Americans and Brown v. Board of education Opened an opportunity for blacks to get an education
500
Who did the EP apply to
States that stayed in the union
500
Define Scalawag
Southerners who supported Carpetbaggers and freedom
500
What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau
It was to free slaves, clothe slaves, feed slaves, educate slaves, move former slaves north...etc
500
What was the economic impact of sharecropping on African American
Made African Americans Depend on whites land owners because they ended up owing land owners money and would have to work to pay off debts
500
What was different about the beliefs of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois and what was the same ?
Booker T. Washington focused on having education for real life jobs and not asking for equality from the whites. Dubois was very focused on blacks being book smart to get any where in life and wanted equal rights from the whites