Reconstruction

What did the 13th amendment accomplish?

• It made slavery illegal

• Grants citizenship & equal protection

• Guarantees voting rights

• Granted Weapon rights

What did the 14th amendment accomplish?

• Freedom of religion

• Granted citizenship and equal rights to all people born in the U.S.

• Made slavery illegal

• Guarantees voting rights

What did the 15th amendment accomplish?

• Grants citizenship & equal protection

• Right to bear arms

• Bans slavery

• Guarantees voting rights to all men no matter their race

These were used to take away the rights of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.

• Amendments

• White Codes

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights

The following group provided aid (help) to former slaves during Reconstruction.

• Black Codes

• Carpetbaggers

• 13th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

Agricultural & economic practice where a land owner allows a tenant farmer to work his land for a share of his crop

• sustenance farming

• sharecropping

• carpetbagger

• slavery

What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?

• Deciduous Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Wistful Whigs
• Fancy Federalists

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. 

• Reconstruction
• Freedman's Bureau
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws

In 1866, a group formed in the South to fight against the rising influence of African Americans in the South. Members of this group often turned to violence and intimidation, What was the name of this controversial group?

• Sons of the Confederacy
• Neo-Nazis
• Ku Klux Klan
• Black Separatists