Reconstruction

Question 1

Abolished slavery in the USA and its territories

Answer 1

13th Amendment

Question 2

Grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the USA, including former slaves

Also includes due process, the right to fair treatment through the normal judicial system

Answer 2

14th Amendment

Question 3

Grants all male citizens the right to vote

Answer 3

15th Amendment

Question 4

Did all groups receive the rights of the 13-15th Amendment immediately

Answer 4

No - Native American and women would not receive them for many years

Question 5

President of the Union (NORTH) during the Civil War. After the war, he wanted the North and the South to reconcile

Answer 5

Abraham Lincoln

Question 6

President after Lincoln was assassinated. Had a mostly hands off approach for Reconstruction and did things that hurt African Americans, like getting rid of the Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 6

Andrew Johnson

Question 7

Union General who became president after Johnson

Answer 7

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 8

President who won the 1876 election by promising to remove troops from the South and end Reconstruction

Answer 8

Rutherford B Hayes

Question 9

General of the Confederate States (SOUTH) who encouraged Southerners to stop fighting and reconcile with the North

Answer 9

Robert E Lee

Question 10

Former slave who escaped and fought for abolition and voting rights for all as an adult

Answer 10

Frederick Douglass

Question 11

Former slave who stole a Confederate ship, sailed to the North, joined the Union Army, and later became a congressman

Answer 11

Robert Smalls

Question 12

When did the Civil War end

Answer 12

1865

Question 13

When did Reconstruction Begin

Answer 13

1865

Question 14

When did Andrew Johnson become president

Answer 14

1865

Question 14

When was President Lincoln assassinated

Answer 14

1865

Question 15

1866

Answer 15

• Black Codes are implemented that take away the rights of African Americans
• Black codes are removed with creation of 14th and 15th Amendments
• Civil Rights Act of 1866 is created to protect the rights of former slaves
• Federal troops are sent to the South to enforce this act

Question 16

1876

Answer 16

• A presidental election is held that is too close to call.
• a special committe is organized to decide who will become presient
• Rutherford B Hayes says he will remove federal troops from the south if he gets the presidency
• He sticks to his word, so troops are removed, the Civil Rights Act is no longer protected
  Reconstruction ends a year later

Question 17

1877

Answer 17

• With Civil Rights Act and federal troopos gone, white southerners start spreading Jim Crow Laws and restrict voting from African American s
• Segregation spreads to most corners of life and continues all over the country for around a century

Question 18

The movement to end slavery. People who believed in this cause were Abolitionists

Answer 18

Abolition

Question 19

Rules implemented in the South in order to limit the rights of former slaves. These included limitations on the jobs they could have and limits to African Americans’ ability to vote

Answer 19

Black Codes

Question 20

Black codes were rules implemented in the South in order to _____ of former slaves. These included _____ they could have and limits to African Americans’ _____

Answer 20

• limit the rights
• limitations on jobs
• ability to vote

Question 21

Northerners who came to the South to take advantage of the area after the Civil War. Disliked by Southerners

Answer 21

Carpetbaggers

Question 22

Carpetbaggers were _____ who came to the South to take advantage of the area after the Civil War. ____ by Southerns

Answer 22

• Northerners
• Disliked

Question 23

The unequal treatment of different groups because they are different from one another

Answer 23

Discrimination

Question 24

Group that aided former slaves with education, jobs, food, shelter, and more. Disbanded early into Reconstruction

Answer 24

Feedman's Bureau

Question 24

Discrimination is the ______ because they are different from one another

Answer 24

unequal treatment of different groups

Question 25

The opposite of segregation. Integrated places are where people of different groups can interact freely and normally

Answer 25

Integration

Question 25

Freedman's Bureau is a group that ____ with education, jobs, food, shelter, and more. It was _____ early into Reconstruction

Answer 25

- aided former slaves - disbanded

Question 26

Laws created by racist Americans to legalize segregation. These applied in restaurants, schools, hospitals, and most places throughout America into the mid-1900s

Answer 26

Jim Crow Laws

Question 27

Integration is the _____

Answer 27

opposite of segregation

Question 27

Jim Crow laws were created by racists American's to _____. These applied in _____, _____, _____ and most places throughout American into the mid-1900s

Answer 27

- legalize segregation - restaurants - schools - hospitals

Question 28

Terrorist group that used violence and fear to intimidate and kill African Americans in the late 1800s. Still exists today

Answer 28

Ku Klux Klan

Question 29

The Ku Klux Klan is a _____ that used _____ to intimidate and kill African Americans in the late 1800s

Answer 29

- terrorist group - violence and fear

Question 30

“To come back together after a conflict.” Was the desire of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee following the Civil War

Answer 30

Reconcile

Question 31

The period after the Civil War in which the south was rebuilt. Lasted from 1865 (the end of the war) to 1877. Rights for African Americans changed drastically, from the highs of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the lows of Black Codes and sharecropping

Answer 31

Reconstruction

Question 32

The separation of different groups based on traits like race

Answer 32

Segregation

Question 33

System of farming that kept former slaves working for white landowners by keeping them in constant debt

Answer 33

Sharecropping

Question 34

Following the Civil War, _____ could hold government office, but people who had been _____ could not

Answer 34

- African Americans - military leaders of the Confederacy (south)

Question 35

Federal Troops were sent down into the South to protect the rights of former slaves under the _____. After Hayes was elected in 1876, the troops were removed,_____ ended the following year, and _____ grew throughout the nation

Answer 35

- Civil Rights Act of 1866 - Reconstruction - racism

Question 36

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who_____. This is not be confused with Robert Smalls, another escaped slave who took more direct action by.

Answer 36

- fought for equal rights and abolition - stealing a Confederate ship and taking it north to the Union army

Question 37

Former Confederate leaders went _____ following the Civil War, as leaders like Lincoln believed they had been punished enough by the fighting and bloodshed and

Answer 37

- mostly unpunished - wanted the nation to reconcile

Question 38

Jim Crow Laws applied to people of _____ color. Most things were divided into sections

Answer 38

- ALL - Whites Only and Colored Only