Reconstruction (Johnson after Lincoln)

Question 1

When was the period of Reconstruction?

Answer 1

1865-1877

Question 2

What was Johnson’s plan?

Answer 2

To rebuild confederate states into the Union to help integration

Question 3

When was the 13th Amendment?

Answer 3

1865

Question 4

When and what was the Civil Rights act?

Answer 4

1866 and it granted citizenship to anybody born in the USA (excluding Native Americans).

Question 5

What was the 14th Amendment?

Answer 5

Confirmed the rights to citizenship and forbade states from depriving any person of life, liberty or property & forbade states from denying citizens the equal protection of the laws

Question 6

When and what was the 15th amendment?

Answer 6

1870 and it forbade states from denying anyone the right to vote on account of race or colour. It still allowed states to restrict suffrage on grounds like illiteracy and poverty.

Question 7

What did enforcement acts and Ku Klux Klan act do?

Answer 7

It was a response to the violence - it became a federal criminal offence to restrict civil and political rights of others

Question 8

When was the second Civil Rights act and what did it do?

Answer 8

1875 and it guaranteed black Americans equal accommodation in public places, but lacked enforcement

Question 9

What was the problem in 1876?

Answer 9

Democrats now controlled the South so they could obtain military control, leading to the end of Reconstruction and federal protection of freed slaves.

Question 10

When was the 14th Amendment?

Answer 10

1868

Question 11

When did Andrew Johnson become president?

Answer 11

1865