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This president became chief executive after Lincoln’s assassination and favored a lenient Reconstruction plan.
Andrew Johnson
This group of Republicans in Congress pushed for full civil and political rights for African Americans.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction.
Who was Hiram Revels?
This secret organization used violence to undermine Reconstruction governments.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
This disputed presidential election in 1876 involved Rutherford B. Hayes.
What was the Election of 1876?
This long-running animated television show debuted in 1989 and features the Simpson family.
What is The Simpsons?
Johnson’s plan required Southern states to ratify this amendment abolishing slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This African American Mississippi senator advocated for civil rights and public education.
Who was Blanche K. Bruce?
These federal laws passed in 1870–1871 targeted Klan violence.
What were the Enforcement Acts?
The case that decided "seperate but equal" was a reasonable and legal standard for life among American citizens
Plessy v Ferguson
This U.S. national park in Wyoming is widely considered the first national park in the world.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
These Southern governments, formed under Johnson, passed laws restricting freed people’s rights.
What were Black Codes?
This amendment prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
These interracial state constitutional conventions rewrote Southern constitutions after 1867.
What were Reconstruction conventions?
This term described the systematic use of terror to suppress Black voting.
What was intimidation (or voter suppression/terrorism)?
This informal political agreement resolved the 1876 election dispute.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This 1969 event marked the first time humans walked on the Moon.
What was the Apollo 11 mission?
Johnson vetoed this 1866 legislation that aimed to protect freed people’s civil rights.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
These 1867 laws divided the South into five military districts.
What were the Reconstruction Acts?
This term described white Southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction.
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What were scalawags?
This group of white Southern Democrats sought to “redeem” the South from Republican rule.
Who were Redeemers?
As part of the Compromise of 1877, federal troops were removed from these states.
What were South Carolina and Louisiana?
This amendment to the Constitution lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
Hayes’s opponent in the disputed 1876 election.
Who was Samuel J. Tilden?
This government agency, led by Oliver O. Howard, assisted formerly enslaved people with education, labor contracts, and legal matters.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This Massachusetts senator was a leading Radical Republican advocate of racial equality.
Who was Charles Sumner?
This term referred to Northern Republicans who moved South during Reconstruction.
What were carpetbaggers?
This paramilitary organization in Louisiana violently opposed Reconstruction.
What was the White League?
This economic crisis beginning in 1873 weakened Northern support for Reconstruction.
What was the Panic of 1873?
This pop icon, often called the “King of Rock and Roll,” recorded hits like “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse
Who was Elvis Presley?
Johnson was impeached largely for violating this law restricting his ability to remove cabinet members.
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
This Pennsylvania congressman pushed for confiscation of Confederate land.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
These institutions expanded dramatically during Reconstruction to educate freed people.
What were public schools?
This 1876 massacre in South Carolina symbolized violent resistance to Reconstruction.
What was the Hamburg Massacre?
After Reconstruction ended, Southern states imposed this system of racial segregation.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This U.S. state was the last to join the Union in 1959.
What is Hawaii?
Johnson’s acquittal in his impeachment trial was decided by this margin in the Senate.
What was one vote?
This Supreme Court case weakened federal enforcement of civil rights protections in 1873.
What were the Slaughterhouse Cases?
This share-based agricultural system replaced slavery but often trapped freedpeople in debt.
What was sharecropping?
This Supreme Court decision in 1876 limited federal prosecution of racial violence.
What was United States v. Cruikshank?
This term describes the broader process of restoring white Democratic control in the South.
What was Redemption?
This 1990s sitcom followed six friends living in New York City and featured characters like Ross, Rachel, and Monica.
What is Friends?