Reconstruction

Ended slavery in the United States

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Provided citizenship and equal protection of the laws to all born in the United States.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Radical Republicans

• Wanted Southern states to rejoin the Union quickly

• Persuaded President Johnson to pardon Confederate leaders

• Opposed the 14th Amendment

• Wanted to punish the South for seceding

What was the nickname for a white Southerner who supported Radical Reconstruction?

• Carpetbagger

• Freedman

• Scalawag

• Sharecropper

A Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War, during the Reconstruction era (1865-1877).

• Freedmen
• Carpetbagger
• Ku Klux Klan
  
• Amnesty

A tax that had to be paid before a citizen was able to vote

• Poll tax
• Vote tax
• Literacy tax
• Segregation tax

laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities. 

• Racist
• Prejudice
• Discrimination
• Jim Crow Laws

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Which of the following is true about sharecropping 

• Most southern states outlawed sharecropping
• Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping
• Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty
• Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

Presidential Reconstruction came to end when this President was threatened with impeachment for violating the Tenure of Office Act

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Lyndon Johnson

What event was responsible for the end of Reconstruction?

• The Military Reconstruction Act

• The Compromise of 1877

• The Rise of the KKK

• Plessy vs. Ferguson