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

• tenant farmer

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

• land owner

• 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.

• sharecropper

• 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

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

• Johnson 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

• Lincoln 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

• 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

Trick to help you remember the Amendments

Match the following

• 15th

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

• 13th

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

• 14th

• 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