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Question 1

13th Amendment

Answer 1

Abolishing slavery, except as punishment for a crime

Question 2

14th Amendment

Answer 2

Anyone born in America is a citizen

Question 3

15th Amendment

Answer 3

All men can vote

Question 4

Black Codes

Answer 4

restrict African Americans’ freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages.

Question 5

Civil Rights Act

Answer 5

Anyone in america is a citizen, no matter race, age, religion ect.

Question 6

Tenure of Office Act

Answer 6

Tried to stop the president from removing congress members without senate permission

Question 7

Assassination of Lincoln

Answer 7

John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head at the Ford’s Theater in Washington DC

Question 8

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 8

Thaddeus Stevens was a Radical Republican helping to draft the 14th Amendment.

Question 9

Radical Republicans

Answer 9

A faction of a political party

Question 10

Amnesty

Answer 10

an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.

Question 11

What was reconstruction?

Answer 11

The period after the civil war of acceptance, rebuilding, and equality

Question 12

Wade David Bill

Answer 12

50 percent of voters would have to sign a loyalty oath before a state could return to the Union.

Question 13

Lincoln’s 10% Plan

Answer 13

a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.

Question 14

Andrew Johnson

Answer 14

The vice president after Lincoln, impeached

Question 15

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Answer 15

the House charged Johnson with violating the Tenure of Office Act.

Question 16

Who was the first state to ratify the 14th amendment?

Answer 16

Connecticut

Question 17

What would happen to states that didn’t ratify the 14th amendment?

Answer 17

They could not have a seat in congress and would have to form their own government