Advanced Reconstruction

Change to the Constitution that officially prohibited slavery in the United States

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Match the following

• sharecropper

• Person who owned the land who probably made the most money

• land owner

• Farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property in exchange for land, farming equipment, and seed; they were required to provide the land owner with a share of the crop

• tenant farmer

• Farmers who agreed to work on a landowner’s property that were required to provide the landowner with a share of the crop; unlike sharecroppers, they usually owned their own farming equipment.

Period after the Civil War when the federal government took control of the former Confederate states and worked to readmit them into the Union

• Civil War

• Royal Colony

• Reconstruction

• Jazz Era

Growing city chosen as the fifth capital of Georgia during Reconstruction​ (a)  

• Atlanta
• Savannah

President that led the United States for the majority of the Reconstruction period; was eventually impeached by Republicans in Congress

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Jefferson Davis

• Andrew Jackson

President that led the United States during and directly after the Civil War; created a plan for reuniting the country based on charity/peace towards the former rebelling states

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Jefferson Davis

Match the following

• Congressional Plan

• Period of Reconstruction included the 13th Amendment and the requirement that 10% of legal voters in the former rebelling states take an oath of allegiance to the United States

• Lincoln Plan

• Period of Reconstruction when Congress took responsibility for bringing the former rebelling states back into the Union it required the former rebelling states to ratify the 14th and 15th Amendments

• Johnson Plan

• Period of Reconstruction included the 13th Amendment and the requirement that 10% of citizens in the former rebelling states take an oath of allegiance to the United States

Trick to help you remember the Amendments

Match the following

• 13th

• Addition to the US Constitution that officially granted the privileges of citizenship to Black Americans and anyone born in the United States

• 14th

• Addition to the US Constitution that granted all men over the age of 21 the right to vote

• 15th

• Addition to the US Constitution that officially prohibited slavery in the United States

Government organization created in 1865 to provide aid to freedmen and the poor​ (a)  

• Freedmen's Bureau
• KKK