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Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.

Question 2

Radical Republicans

Answer 2

After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.

Question 3

Freedman

Answer 3

A person who has been freed from slavery.

Question 4

Black Codes

Answer 4

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War.

Question 5

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 5

The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

Question 6

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 6

A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians. It also guaranteed equal protection under the law for all citizens.

Question 7

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 7

1870 constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude.

Question 8

President Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

President after Lincoln, he was lenient on the South and was impeached in 1868 for violating the Tenure in Office Act by firing his Secretary of War without Senate approval. He was found not guilty in his impeachment trial and was not removed from office.

Question 9

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 9

Passed by Congress on 9th April 1866 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition.

Question 10

Election of 1868

Answer 10

The winner of the Election of 1868 was Ulysses S. Grant. He supported Radical reconstruction. His opponent during this election was Democrat Horatio Seymour.

Question 11

Radical Reconstruction

Answer 11

Period of Reconstruction during which the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress seized control of Reconstruction from Pres. Andrew Johnson and passed the Reconstruction Acts of 1867–68, which sent federal troops to the South to oversee the establishment of state governments that were more democratic. Congress also enacted legislation and amended the Constitution to guarantee the civil rights of freedmen and African Americans.