Reconstruction

Question 1

Who drove presidential reconstruction at the end of the civil war?

Answer 1

President Andrew Johnson

He was leanent on the south and allowed discrimination

Question 2

What were some characteristics of Congressional Reconstruction?

Answer 2

It was controlled by radical republicans who provided more civil rights for blacks. They distrusted the south.
This is marked by military control on former Confederate state governments.

Question 3

What did the thirteenth amendment do?

Answer 3

Abolished all slavery

Question 4

What did the fourteenth amendment do?

Answer 4

Privileges and immunities, due process and equal protection clauses

Question 5

What did the fifteenth amendment do?

Answer 5

voting rights regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Question 6

What were jim crow laws?

Answer 6

state laws limiting the rights of blacks

Question 7

How did redemption take place?

Answer 7

States were gradually readmitted to the union

White democrats took over state government

The last military troops left the south in 1877