Reconstruction

What was Reconstruction about?

• Getting revenge on the southern army

• Avenging the death of Lincoln

• Bringing the southern states back to the U.S.

• Building new factories

What is the 13th amendment?

• African American men get the right to vote

• Grants citizenship to all people born in the US

• Makes plantations illegal

• Abolish Slavery

(T/F) Black codes were southern laws designed to discriminate against African Americans

• True

• False

What was the extreme political group during Reconstruction?

• Republicans

• Democrats

• Independents

• Radical Republicans

Lincoln wanted ______ percent of southern voters had to agree to return to the US

• 25%

• 5%

• 10%

• 75%

The Freedmen's Bureau focused on helping which group?

• White Republicans

• Native Americans

• European Immigrants

• African Americans

Granted citizenship to all people born in the US

• 14th amendment

• 10th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 13th amendment

A name given to northern whites who moved to the south

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Traitors

• crazy

Who was the first president to be impeached?

• Abe Lincoln

• Ulysses Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Bill Clinton

What Civil War general became president?

• Robert Lee

• George Meade

• George Longstreet

• Ulysses Grant