Reconstruction Unit

During the Reconstruction Era from 1865 to 1877...

• former Union states were readmitted back into the Union after the Civil War.

• former Confederate states were readmitted back into the Union after the Civil War.

• former northern states were readmitted back into the Confederacy after the Civil War.

• former free states were readmitted back into the Confederacy after the Civil War

This amendment abolishes slavery in the United States and its territories.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

To challenge the Black Codes, Congress passed the...

• Civil Rights Act of 1865

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Civil Rights Act of 1867

• Civil Rights Act of 1868

Collectively, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments guarantee equal protection under the law.

• True

• False

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

President Andrew Johnson fought with the Radical Republicans over this law, causing him to eventually be impeached

• The Compromise of 1877

• The compromise of 1879

• The Civil Rights Act of 1865

• The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Identify all of the events that were related to Compromise of 1877.

• resulted in the election of Rutherford B. Hayes

• Jim Crow laws became prevalent in the South

• It ended Reconstruction

• Federal troops were removed from the South

• resulted in the election of Samuel J. Tilden

This group opposed African Americans' right to vote and terrorized them and others who supported them.

• Radical Republicans

• northern Democrats

• The Freedmenś Bureau

• Ku Klux Klan

The Black Codes...

• restricted the economic and physical freedom of Americans

• restricted the economic and physical freedom of Radical Republicans

• restricted the economic and physical freedom of southern democrats

• restricted the economic and physical freedom of African Americans

The ____________________ wanted a harsher punishment for the Southern States before they were to be rejoined with the Union

• Sons of Liberty

• Radical Republicans

• Ku Klux Klan