Reconstruction: Success and Challenges

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws as citizens of the United States.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

The right of African American male citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

This group gained political power by ratifying the 13th Amendment which allowed 100 percent of the African American Southern population to be counted towards representation in Congress.

• Congressional Democrats

• Congressional Republicans

• Freedmen

This predominately Northern group created military occupation zones in the South to protect African Americans and ratified the 14th and 15th Amendment.

• Congressional Democrats

• Congressional Republicans

• Freedmen

500,000 votes from newly enfranchised (voting) black men in 1869 helped ___.

• Officially abolish slavery in the States

• Create the Freedmen's Bureau

• Elect new republican President Grant

Disgruntled (angry) Southern whites organized ad hoc militias like the Ku Klux Klan to ___.

• Terrorize Southern Blacks and their White supporters into political silence.

• Terrorize Northern Blacks and their White supporters into political silence.

• Terrorize republican President Grant into political silence.

This image in Reconstruction Era history represents...

• Congressional Democrats ratifying the 13th Amendment

• Congressional Republicans enforcing military occupation Zones

• Freedmen using their 14th Amendment rights to protest

According to the video, why was President Grant's fight against Ad Hoc militias like the Ku Klux Klan challenging?

• It was difficult to get Freedmen to stand up to Southern Whites.

• The Ku Klux Klan secured hiding places making them hard to capture.

• An extended military presence in the South cost valuable time and money.

Why did voters return congressional power (House of Representatives) to the Democrats in the 1874 mid-term election?

• The economic depression of 1873 made voters anxious to put Civil War remnants behind them.

• The economic depression of 1873 made it difficult to provide jobs and education to freedmen.

• The economic depression of 1873 forced the close of Northern factories so republicans could't vote.