Reconstruction after civil war

Match the following

• abolished slavery

• 15th amendment

• gave citizenship to those born in the United States and established the equal protection clause

• 13th amendment

• granted the right to vote to African-American males

• 14th amendment

When was the 13th amendment ratified

• 1865

• 1866

• 1867

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Johnson

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

• George Washington

• John Wilkes Booth

• Jefferson Davis

What was Andrew Johnson responsible for during his time as president?

• punishing the rebels

• taking senators to court

• reconstruction of the South

• educating African Americans

What was each state returning to the Union required to do?

• write a new constitution

• open seaports

• pay back taxes

• give plantation land away

Besides enforcing participation in government by African Americans, what did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?

• made the state governments pay taxes

• divided the South into military districts

• gave newly emancipated people land

• gave veterans benefits for life

Match the following

• he became the first African American in the house of representatives

• Joseph Rainey

• In 1870, he became the first African American in the U.S. Senate

• Jefferson Long

• African American that joined the house of representatives after Joseph Rainey

• Hiram Revels

Match the following

• Northern business people who came to the South

• Carpetbagger

• Established to help newly emancipated citizens. Provided schools and hospitals.

• Sharecropping

• When someone lives and farms a plot of land and pays the rent with a part of the harvest

• Freedman's Bureau

Put the following steps in order for impeaching

• Congress opens an investigation and gathers information

• The impeached person faces trial in the Senate.

• The Senate votes on each article of impeachment to decide if they will be impeached. They need 2/3 majority to convict the person.

• The official s removed from office.

• The House of Representatives votes on each article of impeachment to see if they will impeach. They need 2/3 vote to move on.