Topic 9 Era of Reconstruction Quizizz Quizs

Passed by Congress on 9th April 1866 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

Agency set up by Congress to provide freedmen with shelter, food, and medicinal aid and to help them set up schools and find work. The Bureau was dissolved in 1872.

• Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1872)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (1933-1942)

• Works Progress Administration (1935-1943)

• Social Security Administration (1935-Present)

13th Amendment (1865)

• Abolishes slavery without compensation for slave-owners.

• Allows slavery with compensation for slave-owners.

• Permits involuntary servitude for debtors.

• Establishes a system of indentured servitude.

10% of voters from the last election had to pledge to support the union. Pardon all Confederates except high-ranking officials and those who were cruel to POW's

• Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Radical Republican Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill

John Wilkes Booth

• An American stage actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.

• A famous playwright known for his works in the 19th century.

• A politician who served as Vice-President under Abraham Lincoln.

• A soldier in the Civil War who fought for the Union.

Republicans - war hero Ulysses S. Grant. Democrats - New York governor Horatio Seymour. Most African American voters supported Grant and he won. Showed that voters continued to support Radical Reconstruction.

• Presidential Election of 1868

• Civil War of 1861

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Election of 1876

A leader of the Radical Republicans along with Thaddeus Stevens. He was from Massachusetts and was in the Senate. His two main goals were breaking the power of wealthy planters and ensuring that freedmen could vote.

• Charles Sumner

• Henry Ward Beecher

• Frederick Douglass

• Ulysses S. Grant

Andrew Johnson

• 16th President of the United States

• 17th President of the United States, became president after Lincoln's assassination

• 18th President of the United States

• First U.S. president to be elected after a civil war

A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if their ancestors had voted before 1867.

• Grandfather Clause

• Voting Rights Act

• Civil Rights Amendment

• Electoral Reform Act

The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

• Reconstruction

• Reformation

• Restoration

• Reintegration